The Blue Angel - The Masters of Cinema Series

The Blue Angel is one of the first German language sound films (filmed simultaneously in an English - language version), and the picture that represents the initial collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and his immortal muse, Marlene Dietrich. Following up his role in Sternberg's great silent The Last Command, Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath, whose fateful expedition to catch his students frequenting the cabaret known as "The Blue Angel" leads to his own rapture with the establishment's main attraction Lola (Dietrich) - and, as a result, triggers the downward spiral of his life and fortune. Directed by Sternberg while on loan from America to the pioneering German producer Erich Pommer, The Blue Angel is at once captivating, devastating, and powerfully erotic, laced - through with Sternberg's masterful cinematography. From here, the director and Dietrich would go on to make six more films together in the span of five years, and leave a legacy of some of the most indelible iconography in the cinema of glamour and obsession. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Blue Angel in a presentation that incorporates both versions of the film in 1080p HD for the first time in the UK.

Special Features

Commentary: German-language version: Tony Rayns (critic/scholar), Interviews: Marlene Dietrich (actor), German-language and English-language versions included; Video essay by Tag Gallagher (critic/scholar); Original screen test with Marlene Dietrich

Actors: Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Emil Jannings, Hans Roth, Rosa Valette, Edward von Winterstein, Charles Puffy, Rolf Muller

Audio Languages: English, German

Duration: 107 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English, English

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