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Der blaue Engel

Deutschland 1929/1930 Spielfilm

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.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

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

Alle 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

Make-up artist

  • Waldemar Jabs
  • Oscar Schmidt

Costume design

  • Tihamér Varady

Editing

  • Sam Winston
  • Walter Klee

Sound

  • Fritz Thiery

Music

  • Friedrich Hollaender (Unter Verwendung fremder Kompositionen)

Conductor

  • Friedrich Hollaender

Arrangement

  • Franz Wachsmann

Music performer

  • Weintraub Syncopators (Berlin)

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
  • Carl Balhaus
    Gymnasiast Ertzum
  • Robert Klein-Lörk
    Gymnasiast Goldstaub
  • Karl Huszar-Puffy
    Wirt
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann
    Kapitän
  • Gerhard Bienert
    Polizist
  • Ilse Fürstenberg
    Raths Wirtschafterin
  • Friedrich Hollaender
    Pianist
  • Weintraub Syncopators (Berlin)

Production company

  • Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)

Producer

  • Erich Pommer

Location manager

  • Viktor Eisenbach

Original distributor

  • UFA-Filmverleih GmbH (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 04.11.1929 - 22.01.1930: Ufa-Atelier Neubabelsberg
Duration:
2965 m, 108 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 09.05.1933, O.06625, Verbot;
Zensur (DE): 15.03.1930, B.25171, Jugendverbot

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 01.04.1930, Berlin, Gloria-Palast

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Der blaue Engel

Versions

Original

Duration:
2965 m, 108 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 09.05.1933, O.06625, Verbot;
Zensur (DE): 15.03.1930, B.25171, Jugendverbot

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 01.04.1930, Berlin, Gloria-Palast

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
108 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:1,19
Video/Audio:
s/w, 1.0

Prüffassung

Duration:
3403 m, 124 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 16.06.1930, B.26166, Jugendverbot

Duration:
2920 m, 107 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.06.1999, 02464, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei [6. FSK-Prüfung]

Duration:
2931 m, 107 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age 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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