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.
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
based on novel or book
sexual obsession
professor
femme fatale
unrequited love
descent into madness
downfall
black and white
traveling circus
seductress
pre-code
cuckold
expressionism
cabaret performer
downward spiral
moral corruption
self-destructive behavior
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Cast
Emil Jannings
Immanuel Rath
Marlene Dietrich
Lola Lola
Kurt Gerron
Kiepert
Rosa Valetti
Guste
Hans Albers
Mazeppa
Reinhold Bernt
The Clown
Károly Huszár
The Blue Angel's Proprietor
Roland Varno
Pupil
Carl Ballhaus
Pupil
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Captain
Gerhard Bienert
Policeman
Friedrich Hollaender
Pianist (uncredited)
Crew
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Josef von Sternberg
Writer
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
Erich Pommer
Producer
Franz Waxman
Orchestrator
Popular Reviews
88 reviews
John PotashPRO
7.0★ · 04/22/26
clown behavior
clown behavior
Kian
9.4★ · 04/02/26
An incredibly bleak story of obsession and desire starring my favourite actress Marlene Dietrich. I'm keeping this short because everything I expected The Blue Angel to be, it wasn't, and everyone should experience the film that way. Tremendous.
An incredibly bleak story of obsession and desire starring my favourite actress Marlene Dietrich. I'm keeping this short because everything I expected The Blue Angel to be, it wasn't, and everyone should experience the film that way. Tremendous.
Kian Roberts
An incredibly bleak story of obsession and desire starring my favourite actress Marlene Dietrich. I'm keeping this short because everything I expected The Blue Angel to be, it wasn't, and everyone should experience the film that way. Tremendous.
An incredibly bleak story of obsession and desire starring my favourite actress Marlene Dietrich. I'm keeping this short because everything I expected The Blue Angel to be, it wasn't, and everyone should experience the film that way. Tremendous.
LiisPRO
6.0★ · 03/11/26
ive had ride the cyclone brainrot for like 5 months and noel mentions this movie had to scratch an itch
ive had ride the cyclone brainrot for like 5 months and noel mentions this movie had to scratch an itch
adeline
read a superrrr interesting article called ‘iconology of the sexy nazi woman’ to go with this movie but all i can think of is marlene dietrich behind the curtain saying “pick them up anyways”
read a superrrr interesting article called ‘iconology of the sexy nazi woman’ to go with this movie but all i can think of is marlene dietrich behind the curtain saying “pick them up anyways”