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The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] is one of the first German language sound films (filmed simultaneously in an English-language version), and the picture that represents the initial collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and his immortal muse, Marlene Dietrich.Following up his role in von Sternberg’s great silent The Last Command, Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath, whose fateful expedition to catch his students frequenting the cabaret known as “The Blue Angel” leads to his own rapture with the establishment’s main attraction Lola (Dietrich) — and, as a result, triggers the downward spiral of his life and fortune.Directed by von Sternberg while on loan from America to the pioneering German producer Erich Pommer, The Blue Angel is at once captivating, devastating, and powerfully erotic, laced-through with Sternberg’s masterful cinematography.From here, the director and Dietrich would go on to make six more films together in the span of five years, and leave a legacy of some of the most indelible iconography in the cinema of glamour and obsession.The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Blue Angel in a new Dual Format presentation that incorporates both versions of the film in 1080p HD for the first time in the UK.
Original Release
04/01/1930
US Release
12/05/1930
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Emil Jannings | Professor Immanuel Rath |
Marlene Dietrich | Lola Lola |
Kurt Gerron | Kiepert, the Magician |
Rosa Valetti | Guste, His Wife |
Hans Albers | Mazeppa, the Strong Man |
Reinhold Bernt | The Clown / Der Clown |
Eduard von Winterstein | The Director of School (as Eduard V. Winterstein) / Schuldirektor / The Director of School |
Hans Roth | The Caretaker of the Secondary School / Hausmeister |
Rolf Müller | Pupil / Gymnasiast Angst |
Roland Varno | Gymnasiast Lohmann / Pupil |
Directors
Writers
Josef von Sternberg, Heinrich Mann, Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann, Carl Winston
Cast
Name | Character |
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Emil Jannings | Professor Immanuel Rath |
Marlene Dietrich | Lola Lola |
Kurt Gerron | Kiepert, the Magician |
Rosa Valetti | Guste, His Wife |
Hans Albers | Mazeppa, the Strong Man |
Reinhold Bernt | The Clown / Der Clown |
Eduard von Winterstein | The Director of School (as Eduard V. Winterstein) / Schuldirektor / The Director of School |
Hans Roth | The Caretaker of the Secondary School / Hausmeister |
Rolf Müller | Pupil / Gymnasiast Angst |
Roland Varno | Gymnasiast Lohmann / Pupil |
Carl Balhaus | Gymnasiast Ertzum / Pupil |
Robert Klein-Lörk | Pupil / Gymnasiast Goldstaub |
Károly Huszár | Proprietor of The Blue Angel (as Karl Huszar-Puffy) / Proprietor of The Blue Angel |
Wilhelm Diegelmann | Kapitän / Captain |
Gerhard Bienert | Policeman / Polizist |
Ilse Fürstenberg | Maid / Raths Wirtschafterin |
Die Weintraub Syncopators | Group Cast Performers |
Friedrich Hollaender | Pianist |
Edith Kiel | Prostitute |
Wolfgang Staudte | Gymnasiast / Pupil |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Erich Pommer | Producer |