Directed by:
Josef von SternbergCinematography:
Günther RittauComposer:
Friedrich HollaenderCast:
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, Eduard von Winterstein, Roland Varno, Carl Balhaus, Gerhard Bienert (more)Plots(1)
The Blue Angel 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 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 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. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Emil Jannings
Switzerland
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Faust (1926)
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Kurt Gerron
German Empire
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Jealousy (1925)
Rosa Valetti
German Empire
Best movies:
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Asphalt (1929)
Hans Albers
German Empire
Best movies:
The Blue Angel (1930)
Asphalt (1929)
Great Freedom No. 7 (1944)
Reinhold Bernt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Jud Süß (1940)
Eduard von Winterstein
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Hamlet (1921)
Roland Varno
Best movies:
The Blue Angel (1930)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Carl Balhaus
Best movies:
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Gerhard Bienert
German Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Wolfgang Staudte
German Empire
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Friedrich Hollaender
UK
Best movies:
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Phantom (1922)
Ilse Fürstenberg
German Empire
Best movies:
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
Károly Huszár
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Robert Klein-Lörk
Best movies:
The Blue Angel (1930)