Kino Classics has officially announced and detailed its upcoming 2-disc Ultimate Edition Blu-ray release of director Josef von Sternberg's
The Blue Angel a.k.a
Der blaue Engel (1930), starring Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, and Emil Jannings. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on December 17th.
This upcoming 2-disc Blu-ray edition from Kino Classics will include the original German-language version (with optional English subtitles), newly restored in HD from archival 35mm elements by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. It will also include the English-language version (shot simultaneously by Sternberg) on Blu-ray in the United States for the first time, as well as scene comparisons between the two versions.
The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema,
The Blue Angel is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, and the film that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom.
Emil Jannings (
The Last Laugh) stars as Professor Rath, the sexually repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the matter. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Dietrich), Rath is fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren.
Special Features:
- The original German-language version with optional English subtitles, newly restored in HD from archival 35mm elements by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
- The English-language version, on Blu-ray for the first time
- Scene comparison of the two versions
- Marlene Dietrich's Blue Angel screen test
- Dietrich interview footage
- Dietrich concert footage
- Two trailers
- Image gallery