The Blue Angel( 1930)

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

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.

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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)
Wolfgang Staudte
Pupil (uncredited)
Edith Kiel
Prostitue (uncredited)
Die Weintraub Syncopators
Group Cast Performers (as The Weintraub Syncopators)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 06 2022

This really is a story of bitter-sweet love and Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich carry it off with consummate skill. He as a set-in-his-ways academic bent on ensuring his pupils are not corrupted by the distracting influences of "the Blue Angel" inn; she one of the principle bad influences who wishes exactly the opposite. Essentially this is a love story; but is the love ever reciprocated - could it have been; should it have been? The two stars lead us in a dance that pulls at the heart strings whilst the brain is shouting out completely different instructions. It is compelling, all the more ...