The Blue Angel (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Emil Jannings
Immanuel Rath
Marlene Dietrich
Lola Lola
Kurt Gerron
Kiepert
Rosa Valetti
Guste
Hans Albers
Mazeppa
Reinhold Bernt
The Clown
Károly Huszár
The Blue Angel's Proprietor
Eduard von Winterstein
School Headmaster
Hans Roth
Bedel
Rolf Müller
Pupil
Roland Varno
Pupil
Carl Ballhaus
Pupil
Robert Klein-Lörk
Pupil
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Captain
Gerhard Bienert
Policeman
Ilse Fürstenberg
Maid
Friedrich Hollaender
Pianist (uncredited) / Original Music Composer
Wolfgang Staudte
Pupil (uncredited)
Edith Kiel
Prostitue (uncredited)
Die Weintraub Syncopators
Group Cast Performers (as The Weintraub Syncopators)
Josef von Sternberg
Director / Writer
Sam Winston
Editor
Hans Schneeberger
Director of Photography / Assistant Camera
Walter Klee
Editor
Günther Rittau
Director of Photography
Erich Pommer
Producer
Carl Winston
Writer
Fritz Thiery
Sound Designer
Oscar Schmidt
Makeup Artist
Tihamer Varady
Costume Design
Franz Waxman
Orchestrator
Otto Hunte
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 1, 1930
Original NameDer blaue Engel
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Content RatingNR
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This Movie Is About.
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The Blue Angel (German: Der blaue Engel) is a 1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Liebmann, with uncredited contributions by Sternberg, it is based on Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Unrat (Professor Filth) and set in an unspecified northern German port city. The Blue Angel presents the tragic transformation of a respectable professor into a cabaret clown and his descent into madness. The film was the first feature-length German sound film and brought Dietrich international fame. It also introduced her signature song, Friedrich Hollaender and Robert Liebmann's "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)". The film is considered a classic of German cinema.
The film was shot simultaneously in German- and English-language versions. Though the English version was once considered a lost film, a print was discovered in a German film archive, restored and screened at San Francisco's Berlin and Beyond film festival on January 19, 2009. The German version is considered to be "obviously superior"; it is longer and not marred by actors struggling with English pronunciation.