The blue angel (1959)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The blue Angel |
| Original title | The Blue Angel |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Edward Dmytryk |
| script | Nigel Balchin |
| production | Jack Cummings |
| music | Hugo Friedhofer |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | Jack W. Holmes |
| occupation | |
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The Blue Angel is an American drama by Edward Dmytryk from 1959, based on the novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann, published in 1905 . This production is a remake of the German sound film classic Der Blaue Engel from 1930 by Josef von Sternberg . Curd Jürgens took on the role of Emil Jannings in the remake , while May Britt played the part of Marlene Dietrich . The plot was adapted to the modern age and moved to the 1950s.
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Professor Immanuel Rath, a somewhat eccentric and unworldly man who seems to have lost touch with modernity, teaches in a small town in the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the 1950s. His students don't take him very seriously, they disparagingly call him “rubbish”. One day, the aging university professor was shocked to discover that some of his students were visiting an establishment called The Blue Angel , which was quite a bar. Rath suspects a serious case of immorality, which he suspects everywhere anyway, and wants to form his own opinion on site.
In doing so, he quickly falls into the clutches of Tingeltangel singer Lola-Lola, a seductive young woman who knows all too well about her impact on the male world. Instead of tracing his students back on the path of custom and morality, Prof. Rath falls more and more under the spell of the blond, long-legged "siren". It doesn't take long before his social decline is inevitable: First Rath loses his job, then his money and finally the rest of his dignity. The way into the gutter seems inevitable.
Production notes
The blue angel was premiered in New York on September 4, 1959 and, after premieres in Great Britain, Japan, Finland, Sweden and Australia, was also released in Germany on October 30, 1959.
Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford created the film structures, Walter M. Scott provided the equipment. Adele Balkan designed the costumes, Hermes Pan was the choreographer responsible for the dances. Peter Berling assisted director Dmytryk with his recordings in Germany.
Reviews
The reviews of this remake were downright devastating, especially given the legendary original. Below is a small selection:
The Movie & Video Guide found The Blue Angel to be a "disastrous remake".
Halliwell's Film Guide called the remake "an unwise attempt at realism" and called the result an "unintentional farce".
"Strongly sentimental and superficial American remake of Josef von Sternberg's masterpiece, which in no way comes close to the original."
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 138
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 684
- ↑ The blue angel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 21, 2018 .
Web links
- The Blue Angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The blue angel on allemovie.com