The Blue Angel (1930)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg · 108 min · Drama
52.6 TOPICAL score · #1,742 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
The Blue Angel (1930, directed by Josef von Sternberg) has a TOPICAL score of 52.6 - ranked 1,742 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 96% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.4/10 critics' average · Metacritic 90. Audiences: TMDB 7.3/10 (384 ratings) · IMDb 7.6/10. Wikipedia covers it in 42 languages.
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 6,776 films we score. How the score works.
- Critics96% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.4/10 critics' average · Metacritic 90
- AudienceTMDB 7.3/10 (384 ratings) · IMDb 7.6/10
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 42 languages
- Still read10,105 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Emil Jannings (actor #356), Marlene Dietrich (actor #529), Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
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