Der blaue Engel

Der blaue Engel

Deutschland 1929/1930, Spielfilm

Synopsis

The Blue Angel
In a small-town music hall, gorgeous Lola, who is forever "falling in love again", does a chansonette act every night. Amongst the admirers of her erotically-spiced delivery are several grammar-schoolboys. When strict Professor Rath finds out about his pupils′ dubious source of entertainment, he decides to pay a visit to the disreputable establishment himself. To his surprise, he finds Lola - despite her ambiguous act - to be a woman with a heart, and he helplessly falls in love with her. Their precipitate marriage makes the professor a social outcast and brings him ever further down the ladder of human degradation. His destruction is complete when the former scholar appears on stage as a clown at whom raw eggs are thrown. His life has lost all meaning, and, in desperation, he goes his somber way into hopelessness.

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Credits

Director:Josef von Sternberg
Screenplay:Robert Liebmann, Karl Vollmoeller
Director of photography:Günther Rittau
Editing:Sam Winston, Walter Klee
Music:Friedrich Hollaender (Unter Verwendung fremder Kompositionen)
  
Cast: 
Emil JanningsProf. Immanuel Rath
Marlene DietrichLola Lola
Kurt GerronZauberkünstler Kiepert
Rosa ValettiGuste Kiepert
Hans AlbersMazeppa
Reinhold BerntClown
Eduard von WintersteinSchuldirektor
Johannes RothPedell
Rolf MüllerGymnasiast Angst
Roland VarnoGymnasiast Lohmann
Carl BalhausGymnasiast Ertzum
Robert Klein-LörckGymnasiast Goldstaub
Karl Huszar-PuffyWirt
Wilhelm DiegelmannKapitän
Gerhard BienertPolizist
Ilse FürstenbergRaths Wirtschafterin
Friedrich HollaenderPianist
  
Production company:Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)
Producer:Erich Pommer

All Credits

Director:Josef von Sternberg
Assistant director:Sam Winston
Screenplay:Robert Liebmann, Karl Vollmoeller
Co-author:Josef von Sternberg
Adaptation:Carl Zuckmayer
based on:Heinrich Mann (Frei nach dem Roman "Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen")
Director of photography:Günther Rittau
Assistant camera:Hans Schneeberger
Production design:Otto Hunte, Emil Hasler
Costume design:Tihamér Varady
Make-up artist:Waldemar Jabs, Oscar Schmidt
Editing:Sam Winston, Walter Klee
Sound:Fritz Thiery
Music:Friedrich Hollaender (Unter Verwendung fremder Kompositionen)
Conductor:Friedrich Hollaender
Arrangement:Franz Wachsmann
Lyrics:Robert Liebmann, Friedrich Hollaender, Richard Rillo
  
Cast: 
Emil JanningsProf. Immanuel Rath
Marlene DietrichLola Lola
Kurt GerronZauberkünstler Kiepert
Rosa ValettiGuste Kiepert
Hans AlbersMazeppa
Reinhold BerntClown
Eduard von WintersteinSchuldirektor
Johannes RothPedell
Rolf MüllerGymnasiast Angst
Roland VarnoGymnasiast Lohmann
Carl BalhausGymnasiast Ertzum
Robert Klein-LörckGymnasiast Goldstaub
Karl Huszar-PuffyWirt
Wilhelm DiegelmannKapitän
Gerhard BienertPolizist
Ilse FürstenbergRaths Wirtschafterin
Friedrich HollaenderPianist
  
Production company:Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)
Producer:Erich Pommer
Location manager:Viktor Eisenbach
Shoot:04.11.1929-22.01.1930: Ufa-Atelier Neubabelsberg
Original distributor:UFA-Filmverleih GmbH (Berlin)
Length:2965 m, 108 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Rating:Zensur (DE): 15.03.1930, B.25171, Jugendverbot;
Zensur (DE): 09.05.1933, O.06625, Verbot
Screening:Uraufführung (DE): 01.04.1930, Berlin, Gloria-Palast

Titles

Originaltitel (DE) Der blaue Engel

Versions

Original

Length:2965 m, 108 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Rating:Zensur (DE): 15.03.1930, B.25171, Jugendverbot;
Zensur (DE): 09.05.1933, O.06625, Verbot
Screening:Uraufführung (DE): 01.04.1930, Berlin, Gloria-Palast
 

Prüffassung

Length:2920 m, 107 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.06.1999, 02464, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei [6. FSK-Prüfung]
 
Length:3403 m, 124 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Rating:Zensur (DE): 16.06.1930, B.26166, Jugendverbot
 
Length:2931 m, 107 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 26.01.1951, 02464, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei
Screening:TV-Erstsendung (DE): 06.10.1954, ARD
 

Awards

1930
Prädikat: künstlerisch