The Blue Angel (1930)

04/01/1930 (DE) • 1h 48m

Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast

Emil Jannings

Immanuel Rath

Károly Huszár

The Blue Angel's Proprietor

Eduard von Winterstein

School Headmaster


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Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

sexual obsession

professor

femme fatale

unrequited love

descent into madness

downfall

black and white

traveling circus

seductress

pre-code

cuckold

expressionism

cabaret performer

downward spiral

moral corruption

self-destructive behavior

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