The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel)

This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel (1930), showing how director Josef von Sternberg''s virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented team of actors and technicians. It also analyzes the film''s aesthetics, and shows how the grave political situation in Germany reverberated in its seemingly airtight world. One of the most famous image...