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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329022624
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 22399
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 03, 1931
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing, 'Falling in Love Again.' Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation. Lola's unrestrained sexuality was a revelation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the sultry international leading ladies, such as Greta Garbor, who were challenging the limits of screen sexuality.
Amazon.com essential video:
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 Angel nightclub. The film perfectly captures the masochism and degradation of the Weimar Republic, just before the rise of Adolf Hitler. And yet the moral confusion exhibited by Jannings is really due to his own torment. Dietrich is merely an instrument of his innermost desires, standing on stage in top hat, stockings, and bare thighs singing 'Falling in Love Again.' --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Death disguised as love
I have owned and watched several versions of this film. I even have the film script. I would say that the Kino two DVD versions is the best presentation so far. I watched both the English and German versions I find the story depressing but the telling of it and the acting fascinating.
A real added plus is the commentary by German Film Historian Werner Sedendorf. He brought up information directly relating to the film at the time it was relevant. Then he left some berating room so you ... Read More
Rating: - WOW
The film like Citizen Kane, way ahead of its time.
To get an idea of Dietrich's performance, think
Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, but it's 1930!!
Truly an unforgetable piece.
Millenia will come, yet this piece of art will still
shine with fresh luster.
Rating: - One of the great German films
The Blue Angel is one of the most complex movies I have ever seen... It plays very well as an intellectual story line as well as hitting you as a fine visual treat.. this is combined with the fine acting of emil jannings and marlene dietrich in her first sternberg film...
It is the story of two completely different ways of life coming together... The professor 'unrat', played marvelously by Jannings, enters the world of his students' fantasy the Blue Angel nightclub at first to find and scold ... Read More
Rating: - A rare gem
The plot is simple enough: Conservative, well-respected Gymnasium professor(Emil Jannings)falls for tawdry showgirl(Marlene Dietrich) who has become the latest sensation of his(all male)students, which in short order ends up becoming his undoing. Jannings and Dietrich are both fantastic in their roles in this wonderfully pathos-laden film of humiliation and downfall. It is worth noting that the DVD package consists of 2 discs, both the English-language version and the(superior) German version. Editing ... Read More
Rating: - great value for the money
Here you get both the German language and English language versions. What a perfect role for Marlene, great music. A great classic at a good price!
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