Der blaue Engel
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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 Jannings | Prof. Immanuel Rath |
| Marlene Dietrich | Lola Lola |
| Kurt Gerron | Zauberkünstler Kiepert |
| Rosa Valetti | Guste Kiepert |
| Hans Albers | Mazeppa |
| Reinhold Bernt | Clown |
| Eduard von Winterstein | Schuldirektor |
| Johannes Roth | Pedell |
| Rolf Müller | Gymnasiast Angst |
| Roland Varno | Gymnasiast Lohmann |
| 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 Jannings | Prof. Immanuel Rath |
| Marlene Dietrich | Lola Lola |
| Kurt Gerron | Zauberkünstler Kiepert |
| Rosa Valetti | Guste Kiepert |
| Hans Albers | Mazeppa |
| Reinhold Bernt | Clown |
| Eduard von Winterstein | Schuldirektor |
| Johannes Roth | Pedell |
| Rolf Müller | Gymnasiast Angst |
| Roland Varno | Gymnasiast Lohmann |
| 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 |




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