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This 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 .. Read more
| Starring | Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers |
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| Director | Josef Von Sternberg |
| Genres | Drama |
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This 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.
| Starring | Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers |
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| Director | Josef Von Sternberg |
| Studio | EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 20 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, Finnish, Turkish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1930 To Rent: DVD: 23 Sep 2002 |
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A masterwork of late twenties German grotesquerie, and after a slowish beginning an emotional powerhouse, set in a dark nightmare world which could be created only in the studio. Shot also in English, it was highly popular and influential in Britain and A
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Ze Drunken Angel
This is an historic film that launched the career of Marlene Dietrich. It became her trademark and her performance in this movie has been imitated by Liza ... read more »
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a visual treat, wonderful characters, but quite cruel
Atmospheric sets that are both haunting and seedy, wonderfully realised characters (in particular the professor) and the timeless tale of the fall of man.
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A high price to pay for chivalry?
I didn't really like this film, it was a bit depressing to me the way the school teacher's life was degraded by his chivalry.
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Von Sternberg at his best !
The Blue Angel is an enjoyable film. Admittedly I would pre warn those who are not used to 1920's filmmaking to take this film in their stride.
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