Anna Boleyn (1920)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anna Boleyn |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| script |
Hanns Kräly , Fred Orbing |
| production |
Paul Davidson for Projektions-AG Union, Messter-Film GmbH |
| music |
Eduard Prasch (Kapellmeister), Hans Landsberger (Music Director) |
| camera | Theodor Sparkuhl |
| occupation | |
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Anna Boleyn is a German period film in six acts by Ernst Lubitsch from 1920.
action
Anna Boleyn is returning to her home country England after years by ship from France. She lives with her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and here she also meets her childhood sweetheart Heinrich Norris, who is now in the service of King Henry VIII as a knight. He prefers to spend his days at feasts with his men than with his wife Katharina. Anna Boleyn is to be introduced to her on the Queen's name day, as she wants to be one of the ladies-in-waiting. Since the king does not appear, Katharina refuses to receive guests. The Duke of Norfolk leads his niece out of the queen's chamber when the king announces himself at short notice - when the door is hastily closed, Anna Boleyn's dress is jammed, so that the king has to free her and promptly falls in love with the young woman.
Anna Boleyn becomes the queen's maid and the king's advances persecute. Her heart belongs to Heinrich Norris, but he believes Anna loves the king who actually offers her the crown of England. He divorced his wife Katharina because she did not give birth to a male heir to the throne, and since the Pope does not want to give his consent, he spontaneously breaks away from the Pope and lays the foundation stone for the Anglican community . Despite resistance from the population, he marries Anna Boleyn, who shortly before had rejected Heinrich Norris' oaths of love because they were now too late. She still loves him but is loyal to the king. When the king disappears during a spring festival and is secretly having fun with a young woman, the court is looking for him. Anna Boleyn and Heinrich Norris meet in the forest and she rejects his vows of love. The diabolical court poet Marc Smeton sees him coming from Anna Boleyn and wants to approach her, as he also thinks, but she faints from horror. Henry VIII remorsefully returns to his wife, who is pregnant.
Despite high expectations, Anna Boleyn does not give birth to the desired heir to the throne, but to a girl who is called Elisabeth . Henry VIII has now lost all interest in his wife and finds a new lover in Anna Boleyn's lady-in-waiting Johanna Seymour. Although Anna Boleyn fights for Henry VIII, she loses him. Marc Smeton portrays her in a poem as an adulteress and Heinrich Norris as her secret lover. He is captured at the instigation of the Duke of Norfolk, but Heinrich Norris is also said to save his honor at a tournament. He is badly injured and Anna Boleyn's emotional reaction leaves Henry VIII in no doubt about her guilt. Anna Boleyn is captured. Marc Smeton testified against her at the trial, but she replied that he only wanted revenge on her because she had rejected his advances. Smeton is then tortured and "confesses" that he had a relationship with Anna Boleyn. He is hanged and Anna Boleyn is also executed at the behest of Henry VIII.
production
The buildings and decorations came from Kurt Richter and Ferdinand Bellan. Hans Poelzig was responsible for the props , the costumes came from Ali Hubert .
The film was shot from July 20 to October 25, 1920. The locations for the interior shots were the Ufa-Messter and Ufa-Union studios in Berlin-Tempelhof . Here, among other things, the Westminster Abbey with altar, choir stalls and apse was rebuilt, an old English quarter, a tournament area and an access road from the city gate to the abbey were created. The outdoor shots were taken on the Ufa open-air site in Berlin-Tempelhof and at Liepnitzsee near Wandlitz . In total, more than 4000 extras took part in the shoot.
Anna Boleyn banned young people from censorship on November 27, 1920. The premiere of the film took place on December 3, 1920 in the Reform-Lichtspiele in Weimar and in the Lessing Theater in Hamburg .
When Anna Boleyn was released on DVD in 2006, the film was backed with music by Javier Pérez de Azpeitia . The restored film is viraged like the original .
criticism
The contemporary critics praised "how here manuscript and direction merge in a hundred charming pictures, so fantasy and master hand have created mass scenes that leave unforgettable impressions." "The film has tension and scarcity, logic and intensification and the cultural-historical is wisely dosed" , so other reviewers. The film was "far more successful than the ' Sumurun film'" because the plot is more clearly structured and mass and individual scenes are cleverly interwoven.
The lexicon of international film rated Anna Boleyn as “Thanks to an excellent composition and the excellent portrayal of Emil Janning's […] remarkable work of the silent film era.” The “sumptuous and tasteful costumes (Ali Hubert) and a refined picture composition. "
Web links
- Anne Boleyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anna Boleyn at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Podehl: Anna Boleyn (shooting report). In: The film. Vol. 5, No. 40, October 2, 1920, ZDB -ID 575768-x .
- ^ AF: Anna Boleyn. In: The film. Vol. 5, No. 51, December 18, 1920.
- ↑ a b The Daily Book. Vol. 1, No. 51, December 31, 1920, ZDB -ID 130697-2 .
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films. Volume 1: A - C. Published by the Catholic Institute for Media Information eV Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 153. See also: Anna Boleyn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 6, 2017 .
- ^ Dieter Krusche: Lexicon of the movies. From silent films to today . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1977, p. 30.