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The Blue Angel

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The Blue Angel

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Summary

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Robyn Karney

Contrary to popular myth, 28-year-old Marlene Dietrich had already appeared in almost 20 (admittedly minor) films in her native Germany when Josef von Sternberg cast her as Lola, the sensual cabaret singer who enslaves, humiliates and finally destroys middle-aged professor Emil Jannings. The film did, however, bring about the famous von Sternberg/Dietrich Hollywood collaboration. Jannings, making his first talking picture, has some wonderful moments in an uneven performance. But it was the cruel and seductive Dietrich, in top hat and black stockings, perched on a bar stool and huskily singing Falling in Love Again, that became one of the cinema's great iconic images. The film was pointlessly and inadequately remade in 1959 with Curt Jurgens and May Britt.

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Cast

rolenameProfessor Immanuel RathEmil JanningsLola FrohlichMarlene DietrichKiepert, a magicianKurt GerronGuste Kiepert, his wifeRosa ValetteMazeppaHans AlbersSchool principalEduard Von WintersteinThe clownReinhold BerntBeadleHans RothAngst, a studentRolf MüllerGoldstaub, a studentRobert Klein-Lork

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rolenameDirectorJosef von Sternberg

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Theatrical distributor

Eureka Entertainment

Released on

2019-05-31

Languages

English | German | French

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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