With: Emil Jannings (Prof. Immanuel Rath), Marlene Dietrich (Lola Lola), Kurt Gerron (Zauberkünstler Kiepert / The Magician), Rosa Valetti (Guste Kiepert / The Magician's Wife), Hans Albers (Mazeppa /The Strongman),  Reinhold Bernt (Der Clown / The Clown)
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Screenplay: Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann. Based on a novel by Heinrich Mann.
Producer: Erich Pommer
Production co: UFA Tonfilm, Universum Film (UFA)
Photography: Günther Rittau
Editor: Walter Klee
Music: Friedrich Holländer
REVIEW 

"Among the first enduringly great movies of the sound era, The Blue Angel was made simultaneously in German and English versions by the 35-year-old Viennese-born Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg.  The great German character actor Emil Jannings, who'd won the first ever Oscar for best actor under Sternberg's direction in The Last Command (1928), insisted on Sternberg being brought to Berlin for his first talking film.

This turned out to be The Blue Angel (based on a novel by Thomas Mann's brother Heinrich), in which Jannings gives an exquisitely detailed performance as the pompous, middle-aged Professor Rath, a high-school teacher whose life is destroyed through his romantic infatuation with Lola Lola, a wilful young singer he meets at the eponymous nightclub.  Sternberg cast the little-known Marlene Dietrich as the mercurial enchantress, a role that brought her world stardom and took her to the States, where Sternberg shaped her persona in six further films.

Superbly designed and lit, The Blue Angel is a modern tragedy and an erotic masterpiece with fine songs by Friedrich Holländer (among them Dietrich's signature number, Falling in Love Again).  Endless scenes etch themselves on the mind. "
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— Philip French, The Guardian
Excerpt: Marlene Dietrich as Lola singing "Falling in Love Again" in The Blue Angel.
FILM SOCIETY SCREENING

Canterbury  OPENING NIGHT                    
Monday, 26  February, 7.30pm
Open to the public by koha
Complimentary drink & snack will be served