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The blue angel

Title
The blue angel [videorecording] / an Erich Pommer production.
Publication
Reseda, CA : Silver Mine Video, c1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969.
  • Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966.
  • Zuckmayer, Carl, 1896-1977.
  • Vollmöller, Karl, 1878-1948.
  • Liebmann, Robert.
  • Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950.
  • Dietrich, Marlene.
  • Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944.
  • Valetti, Rosa.
  • Albers, Hans.
  • Huszar-Puffy, Karl, 1884-1942.
  • Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950.
  • Silvermine Video (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (89 min.) : sd., b&w; 1/2 in.
Summary
Professor Rath, a middle aged schoolmaster, becomes infatuated with and later marries Lola-Lola, a singer in a sleazy cabaret. He is increasingly degraded by her and when she leaves him for another man, he returns to his school a broken old man and dies.
Uniform Title
Blaue Engel.
Subject
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) > Drama
  • Love > Drama
  • Feature films
Genre/Form
  • Drama.
  • Video recordings.
Note
  • Originally released as motion picture in 1930.
  • Based on the novel, Professor Unrat, by Heinrich Mann.
  • "The rare original English language version" of the first German talking film, Der Blaue Engel," shot at the same time as the German language version. Contains visual and plot variations from the German version.
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Erich Pommer; director, Josef von Sternberg; [screenplay] written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmoller and Robert Liebmann; photographed by Gunther Rittau, Hans Schneeberger; music, Friedrich Holländer; lyrics, Robert Liebmann.
Performer (note)
  • Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Karl Huszar-Puffy.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Language (note)
  • English and German.
OCLC
  • ocm15987141
  • SCSB-1137055
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library