The Blue Angel (1930) on DVD + The Blue Angel (1959) DVD-R

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The Blue Angel (1930)



 Starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers     
Directed by Josef von Sternberg

Print: black/white
Runtime: 124 min.
Genre: Drama

Kino's two-disc set features both the restored 106-minute German-language version and the trimmed 94-minute English-language version, which was shot simultaneously for the American market (with the actors clumsily performing in English). Historian Werner Sudendorf of the Berlin Film Museum provides an informative and well-researched commentary track (on the German version) steeped in production history and background detail, and he contributes "The Blue Angel Chronicles," a historical timeline illustrated with production stills. Marlene Dietrich fans will love the concert clips of Dietrich revisiting three songs from the film in that smoky, throaty nightclub voice of her mature years. Other features are Dietrich's 1929 screen test, a two-minute interview clip from 1963 in which she discusses The Blue Angel, a stills gallery with behind-the- scenes photos, costume illustrations and posters, bios of 41 key cast and production staff members, and original and reissue trailers.




The Blue Angel (1959)
Starring Curd Jurgens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Fabrizio Mioni
Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Print: color
Runtime: 107 min.
Genre: drama

Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens)is a martinet botany professor at a German high 
school who finds post cards bearing the likeness of Lola-Lola (May Britt), "The Blue Angel", 
in the possession of his pupils. He goes to the cafe where she is appearing to see if any of 
his pupils are there, and spots two of them. While chasing them, he encounters Lola-Lola 
and the troupe manager, Kiepert (Theodore Bikel.) He returns the next evening and 
becomes involved with Lola. His visit to the cafe, and the fact he spent the night with Lola, 
becomes common knowledge and he is forced to leave his school position. Despite the 
protests of his friends, he marries Lola, who is intrigued by the idea of being the wife of a 
professor. The intrigue doesn't last long, as Rath is unable to get work because of his wife. 
He becomes a broken character, reduced to performing odd jobs around the troupe and 
living off the earnings of his wife. When the troupe returns to his hometown, Kiepert brutally 
uses him in a magic act as a shill to attract customers from among his old students and 
friends. Lola meets a former lover and, as Rath is being degraded on the stage, she allows 
the former lover to make love to her in sight of her husband. Rath goes beserk and sets out 
to strangle her.