Director : Josef von Sternberg
Cast : Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Durata : 01:48
At Giunti Odeon, one of the most important films in the history of cinema: The Blue Angel directed by the great Josef von Sternberg, the masterpiece that launched Marlene Dietrich into the Olympus of cinema and the collective imagination, creating a new female myth that was to influence history, and not only cinema. The ambiguous, sensual, cynical cabaret singer Lola Lola is an iconic character, the first that Marlene Dietrich played in her long association (eight films) with Joseph von Sternberg, the director who moulded her image as a femme fatale, free and emancipated. Endowed with beauty, charm and outsized acting qualities, Marlene Dietrich is much more than a diva, she is one of the great female figures of the 20th century, capable of challenging and changing the norms of society. Her Lola Lola, which thrust her into the spotlight, is the triumph of eros and thanatos for European culture. The professor who succumbs to her hoarse and erotic charm is an example of the Weimar crisis. Star and History forever together in a film that is perverse in its own way.