--- title: 'The Blue Angel (1959)' type: 'film' director: 'Edward Dmytryk' released: '1959-01-01' runtime_minutes: 107 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-blue-angel-1959' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052638/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Blue Angel (1959) 1959 · 107 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Blue Angel is a 1959 American drama film in CinemaScope directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Curd Jürgens, May Britt, and Theodore Bikel. The film is a remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel about cabaret singer Lola-Lola and the troubled, aged Professor Rath, who falls for her much to his own detriment. Both films were based on Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Unrat. ## Credits - **Director:** [Edward Dmytryk](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-dmytryk) - **Screenplay:** [Nigel Balchin](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-balchin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ray Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-evans) - **Producer:** [Jack Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cummings) - **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy) ## Cast - [Curd Jürgens](https://cinepixo.com/people/curd-jurgens) as Professor Immanuel Rath - [May Britt](https://cinepixo.com/people/may-britt) as Lola-Lola - [Theodore Bikel](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodore-bikel) as Klepert - [John Banner](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-banner) as Principal Harter - [Fabrizio Mioni](https://cinepixo.com/people/fabrizio-mioni) as Rolf - [Ludwig Stössel](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludwig-stossel) as Dr. Fritz Heine - [William Kirschner](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-kirschner) - [BarBara Luna](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-luna) - [John George](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-george) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-blue-angel-1959 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2571122); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.