Product Information
The story of a strait-laced professor who is reduced to a figure of ridicule by a callous and manipulative woman whom he meets at the local Blue Angel night club.Product Identifiers
EAN5060033472118
eBay Product ID (ePID)30588382
Product Key Features
ActorRosa Valetti, Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
Film/TV TitleBlue Angel
DirectorJosef Von Sternberg
LanguageGerman
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time106 Mins
Release Year2004
FormatDVD
FeaturesBlack & White, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
ComposerKarl Vollmoller
Additional InformationThis Josef Von Sternberg film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel PROFESSOR UNRAT, made Marlene Dietrich a celebrity and began a tumultuous relationship between star and director that spanned Sternberg's most creative period. The film features Emil Jannings as Dr. Immanuel Rath, a provincial prep school teacher who becomes incensed when he learns his boys have become infatuated with Lola Lola (Dietrich), a cabaret singer. Heading to the Blue Angel, a nightclub, to catch his pupils, Rath instead becomes bewitched by the sensuous Lola himself, beginning an obsession that drives him to the depths of despair. Visionary, haunting, and emotionally unrelenting, THE BLUE ANGEL stands as Sternberg's crowning achievement. Filmed in both German and English simultaneously, the German version is generally considered superior to its English language counterpart.
ScreenwriterKarl Vollmoller, Robert Lieberman, Carl Zuckmayer