The Blue Angel

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.

Cast

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

as Immanuel Rath

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

as Lola Lola

Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

as Kiepert

Rosa Valetti

Rosa Valetti

as Guste

Hans Albers

Hans Albers

as Mazeppa

Reinhold Bernt

Reinhold Bernt

as The Clown

Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár

as The Blue Angel's Proprietor

Eduard von Winterstein

Eduard von Winterstein

as School Headmaster

Hans Roth

Hans Roth

as Bedel

Rolf Müller

Rolf Müller

as Pupil

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This really is a story of bitter-sweet love and Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich carry it off with consummate skill. He as a set-in-his-ways academic bent on ensuring his pupils are not corrupted by the distracting influences of "the Blue Angel" inn; she one of the principle bad influences who wis...

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