Seeing lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the. Unlike some of the awkward early efforts in using the new cumbersome sound technology, the. Written by carl zuckmayer, karl vollmoller and robert liebmann with uncredited contributions by sternberg it is based on heinrich mann s 1905 novel professor unrat. Th ough shot prior to the filming of morocco 1930, the blue angel was released in the united states just afterwards. The blue angel is the ecolabel of the federal government of germany since 1978. Our label for the environment blue angel blauer engel. The blue angel sets high standards for environmentally friendly product design and has proven itself over the past 40 years as a reliable guide for a more sustainable consumption. But it is emil jannings who is the class act in this film a funny, disturbing, sensitive and moving performance of the fuddyduddy professor who falls from a position of high respect to despair and ridicule. 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. However, his marriage to a coquette whose job is to entice men proves to be more.
Emil jannings, marlene dietrich, kurt gerron, hans albers, rosa valetti, reinhold. The blue angel environmental label makes this possible. If you use products or services holding the blue angel ecolabel, you can be sure that you are doing something good for yourself, the environment and the future. Around 12,000 environmentallyfriendly products and services from around 1,600 companies have been awarded the blue angel. It is certainly not universally acclaimed as the best film ever made, but it is, in my honest opinion, an extraordinary achievement of classic cinema.