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The Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel (1930)

Drama

You Too, Will Be Aroused By Her Intoxicating Beauty! "This Woman Makes a Man of Dignity a Slave to Love!"

Release Date: 1930, April 1
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Countries: Germany
Production: UFA
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Károly Huszár, Kurt Gerron, Gerhard Bienert, Ilse Fürstenberg, Carl Ballhaus, Reinhold Bernt, Eduard von Winterstein, Hans Albers, Roland Varno, Rosa Valetti

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book femme fatale seductress unrequited love black and white professor descent into madness sexual obsession cuckold traveling circus moral corruption downward spiral expressionism pre-code downfall cabaret performer self-destructive behavior