Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The Blue Angel is one of the first German language sound films (filmed simultaneously in an English-language version) & the picture that represents the initial collaboration between Josef von Sternberg & 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)
- & as a result triggers the downward spiral of his life & fortune Directed by Sternberg while on loan from America to the pioneering German producer Erich Pommer The Blue Angel is at once captivating devastating & powerfully erotic laced-through with Sternberg&s masterful cinematography From here the director & Dietrich would go on to make six more films together in the span of five years & leave a legacy of some of the most indelible iconography in the cinema of glamour & obsession The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Blue Angel in a new Dual Format presentation that incorporates both versions of the film in 1080p HD for the first time in the UK Actors Emil Jannings Marlene Dietrich Kurt Gerron Rosa Valetti Hans Albers Reinhold Bernt Eduard von Winterstein Hans Roth Rolf Muller Roland Varno Carl Balhaus Robert Klein-Lörk Charles Puffy Wilhelm Diegelmann & Gerhard Bienert Director Josef Von Sternberg Certificate PGYear 1930 Screen 1191 OARLanguages German Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 47 minutes (approx)