The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 354 1930s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic90/100
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
379 audience votes
Key crew
- Josef von SternbergDirector
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
- Carl WinstonWriter
- Carl ZuckmayerWriter
- Karl VollmöllerWriter
- Josef von SternbergWriter
- Robert LiebmannWriter
Cast
- Emil JanningsImmanuel Rath
- Marlene DietrichLola Lola
- Kurt GerronKiepert
- Rosa ValettiGuste
- Hans AlbersMazeppa
- Reinhold BerntThe Clown
- Károly HuszárThe Blue Angel's Proprietor
- Eduard von WintersteinSchool Headmaster
- Hans RothBedel
- Rolf MüllerPupil
- Roland VarnoPupil
- Carl BallhausPupil
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Themes
based on novel or booksexual obsessionprofessorfemme fataleunrequited lovedescent into madnessdownfallblack and whitetraveling circusseductresspre-codecuckold