Points of Discussion for The Blue Angel (1930)

by Joseph von Sternberg

Settings

• Professor Rath's apartment
• the classroom
• the streets
• the Blue Angel nightclub
• the stage
• the theater
• the dressing room
• Lola's room

Characters

• Professor Immanuel Rath
• Lola Lola
• Kiepert, the Magician
• Guste, his wife
• The clown
• the high school students
• Angst
• Lohmann
• Erztum
• Goldstaub
• Mazeppa, the strongman

Sound

• songs
• as a border or disruptive element
• the rooster cry
• sirens
• cat, geese

Props

• eggs
• birds
• doll
• photos
• life saver
• anchor
• mirror

Discourses/Themes

• authority
• vitality
• siren
• woman as object of the spectacle
• moral transgressions
• decay
• humiliation
• projection of desires and fears