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 The 1930 film The Blue Angel popularized Marlene Dietrich in America and was one of the high points of Weimar Germany cinema.
Still popular today, it’s a little-known fact the movie was adapted from a novel: Heinrich Mann’s 1906 satire, Professor Unrat. And as these things turn out, the original book was an explicit classic steeped in sex and dirty humor—well worth seeking out in its English translation as Small Town Tyrant.
Peter Bogdanovich likes the movie, too. On Saturday, December 10, he’ll be introducing Makor’s screening of The Blue Angel.
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