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The Blue Angel

Der blaue Engel

1930·108 min·DE
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Drama
The Arrival of Sound

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

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Radical Object: The Blue Angel (1930) — History Workshop

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The Blue Angel (1930) | The Definitives — Deep Focus Review

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Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture — Berghahn Books

Book-length study of the film's relationship to mass culture and Dietrich's star image.

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Cast

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Immanuel Rath

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Lola Lola

Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Kiepert

Rosa Valetti

Rosa Valetti

Guste

Hans Albers

Hans Albers

Mazeppa

Reinhold Bernt

Reinhold Bernt

The Clown

Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár

The Blue Angel's Proprietor

E

Eduard von Winterstein

School Headmaster

H

Hans Roth

Bedel

R

Rolf Müller

Pupil

Roland Varno

Roland Varno

Pupil

Carl Ballhaus

Carl Ballhaus

Pupil

R

Robert Klein-Lörk

Pupil

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Captain

Gerhard Bienert

Gerhard Bienert

Policeman

Crew

Carl Winston

writer

Günther Rittau

cinematographer

Friedrich Hollaender

composer

Hans Schneeberger

cinematographer

Carl Zuckmayer

writer

Karl Vollmöller

writer

Robert Liebmann

writer

Josef von Sternberg

writer

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