Opis:

Legendarny film z niezapomnianą kreacją aktorską Marleny Dietrich. Obraz, który stworzył prawdziwą ikonę filmu. Opowieść o jedynej w swoim rodzaju kobiecie, która na zawsze podbiła męskie serca jako chłodna i wyrafinowana blond Lola o zabójczym spojrzeniu i paraliżującym uśmiechu. Film to jednocześnie poruszająca historia odrzuconej miłości mężczyzny do prawdziwej femme fatale.

Marlena Dietrich stworzyła tu niezapomnianą kreację, wcielając się w postać śpiewaczki kabaretowej, kobiety pozbawionej przesądów, zasad moralnych, odrzucającej gorset obyczajów. Aktorka zaprezentowała tu nowy styl gry, niemal usuwając w cień znakomitego partnera - Emila Janningsa. Film opowiada historię profesora pruskiej szkoły, wpadającego w sidła tancerki kabaretowej i staczającego się na dno pod wpływem niszczącego uczucia. Reżyser odważnie, jak na tamte czasy, przedstawił w filmie zagadnienie wyzwolenia seksualnego kobiet. Jest tu aż gęsto od aluzji i symboli o zabarwieniu erotycznym. Klimat ten potęgują piosenki, śpiewane gardłowym, zmysłowym głosem Marleny Dietrich. [Opis Filmoteki Narodowej]
Two things make it impossible to consign Josef von Sternberg's seedily atmospheric 1930 masterpiece The Blue Angel to the archives of museum land: it was the first film to put Marlene Dietrich in front of an international audience, and it features a towering performance from Emil Jannings as the professor whose fall from grace is precipitated by his obsession with Dietrich's archly vampish showgirl Lola-Lola. On both counts The Blue Angel remains a potent, vibrant work which still has moments of real relevance. Dietrich's performance is indeed hypnotic: von Sternberg lights her face and exposed flesh--shoulders and thighs--in a way that clearly indicates the erotic charge she generates among the men in the Blue Angel night club, and in Jennings in particular. Before our eyes his repressed, puritanical self-will disintegrates and his fate is sealed. The pivotal moment is, of course, when Dietrich teases her audience with "Falling in Love Again", her stockinged and suspendered legs astride a beer barrel, a top hat rakishly on her head. It would become the signature tune of her cabaret act in later years but here she delivers it with a far less studied, throwaway cheeriness, how, indeed, can it be her fault if men cluster around her like moths around a flame? This is the raw material on which an icon was built, but there is much else to fascinate in the film itself: you can still smell the pungent grim reality of a trouper's life on the road, and the professor's pathetic efforts to control his class of unruly boys still resonates today... this is an essential piece of film history.

Following up his role in Sternberg's great silent The Last Command, Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath, whose fateful expedition to catch his students frequenting the cabaret known as "The Blue Angel" leads to his own rapture with the establishment's main attraction Lola (Dietrich) - and, as a result, triggers the downward spiral of his life and fortune.

Directed by Sternberg while on loan from America to the pioneering German producer Erich Pommer, The Blue Angel is at once captivating, devastating, and powerfully erotic, laced - through with Sternberg's masterful cinematography. From here, the director and Dietrich would go on to make six more films together in the span of five years, and leave a legacy of some of the most indelible iconography in the cinema of glamour and obsession. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Blue Angel in a new Dual Format presentation that incorporates both versions of the film in 1080p HD for the first time in the UK.

• New 1080p HD presentation of both the German - language and English - language versions of the film, with progressive encodes on the DVD.
• Newly translated optional subtitles on the German - language version, and SDH on the English - language version.
• New and exclusive video essay on the films by critic and scholar Tag Gallagher.
• New and exclusive feature - length audio commentary by critic and scholar Tony Rayns on the German - language version.
• Original screen test with Marlene Dietrich.
• Archival interview clips with Dietrich.
• More features to be announced closer to release date!