The Blue Angel is a 1930 film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich and Kurt Gerron. Based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat, and set in Weimar Germany, it presents the tragic transformation of a man from a respectable professor to a cabaret clown, and his descent into madness. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film, and brought Dietrich international fame. In addition, it introduced her signature song, Friedrich Hollaender's "Falling in Love Again ". The film was shot simultaneously in German and English language... versions, but the German version is much better known. The English language version was considered a lost film for many years until a print was discovered in a German film archive and restored. This restored print of the English version had its U.S. premiere at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on 19 January 2009 as part of the "Berlin and Beyond" film festival. Immanuel Rath is an esteemed educator at the local Gymnasium – a college preparatory high school – in Weimar Germany.
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| Release date: | 1930 |
| Directed by: | Josef von Sternberg |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Erich Pommer |
| Editor: | Walter Klee, Sam Winston |
| Music by: | Friedrich Hollaender |
| Cinematography: | Günther Rittau |
| Screenplay by: | Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann, Josef von Sternberg |
| Estimated budget: | $77,982 |
| Adapted from: | Professor Unrat |
| Genre: | Musical |