# L'Ange bleu (1930)

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**Original title**: *Der blaue Engel*
**Runtime**: 108 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Josef von Sternberg
**Written by**: Josef von Sternberg, Carl Winston, Carl Zuckmayer
**Starring**: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt

> *You Too, Will Be Aroused By Her Intoxicating Beauty! "This Woman Makes a Man of Dignity a Slave to Love!"*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Von Sternberg scales down from epics to an academic undone by a dancer. A starchy professor follows students to a Weimar cabaret and loses his career to a blonde bombshell whose act is all legs and come-ons. The fallout: a clownish, cuckolded husband in a moth-eaten suit.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, sexy

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