"Marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film that introduced the young actress Marlene Dietrich by presenting Mann's novel and Sternberg's script about a man destroyed by his desire for a cabaret singer"
"Marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film that introduced the young actress Marlene Dietrich by presenting Mann's novel and Sternberg's script about a man destroyed by his desire for a cabaret singer"
"For director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich it all began with The Blue Angel, one of the masterpieces of Germany's Weimar cinema. This landmark film thrust the sultry and unrestrained Dietrich on an unsuspecting international film audience. She plays the prototypical role of Lola, the singer who tempts repressed professor Emil Jannings (the king of expressionist actors) into complete submission night after night at the Blue An ..."
"The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema, The Blue Angel is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, presented in both the newly-restored German and English-language versions. Emil Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub so ..."