Anna Boleyn (film)

Anna Boleyn
US DVD cover
Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by	Paul Davidson
Written by	Norbert Falk (as Fred Orbing) Hanns Kräly
Starring	Henny Porten Emil Jannings Paul Hartmann
Music by	Eduard Prasch (Original) Javier Pérez de Azpeitia (2006)
Cinematography	Theodor Sparkuhl
Distributed by	UFA
Release dates	December 3, 1920 (1920-12-03)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent

Anna Boleyn, also known as Deception, is a 1920 German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII.

Film still

Cast

Henny Porten as Anna Boleyn
Emil Jannings as Henry VIII
Paul Harmann as Sir Henry Norris
Ludwig Hartau as the Duke of Norfolk
Aud Egede-Nissen as Jane Seymour
Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein as Queen Catherine
Maria Reisenhofer as Lady Rochford
Ferdinand von Alten as Marc Smeton
Adolf Klein as Cardinal Wolsey

Reception

Anna Boleyn was among Mary Pickford's favorite films, calling it "an example of superb direction and splendid acting, especially that of Emil Jennings. It was the first time on the screen that a King had been made human. It has subtle, satirical humor."^[1]

DVD releases

The film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin" in 2007 with English intertitles. It was also released in the UK by Eureka's Masters of Cinema series as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies" in 2010 with German intertitles and English subtitles.

References

↑ Howe, Herbert (January 1924). "Mary Pickford's Favorite Stars and Films". Photoplay (New York: Photoplay Publishing Company). Retrieved September 4, 2015.

External links

Anna Boleyn at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Feature films	Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916) When Four Do the Same (1917) Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) Carmen (1918) Intoxication (1919) The Doll (1919) My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) The Oyster Princess (1919) Meyer from Berlin (1919) Madame DuBarry (1919) Sumurun (1920) Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920) Anna Boleyn (1920) The Wild Cat (1921) The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) The Flame (1923) Rosita (1923) The Marriage Circle (1924) Three Women (1924) Forbidden Paradise (1924) Kiss Me Again (1925) Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) So This Is Paris (1926) The Honeymoon Express (1926) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) The Patriot (1928) Eternal Love (1929) The Love Parade (1929) Monte Carlo (1930) Paramount on Parade (co-director) (1930) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Broken Lullaby (1932) One Hour with You (1932) Trouble in Paradise (1932) Design for Living (1933) The Merry Widow (1934) Angel (1937) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Ninotchka (1939) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) That Uncertain Feeling (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Heaven Can Wait (1943) A Royal Scandal (1945) Cluny Brown (1946) That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Short films	I Don't Want to Be a Man Kohlhiesels Töchter If I Had a Million (segment "The Clerk")

Anne Boleyn

Family	Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (father) Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (mother) George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (brother) Mary Boleyn (sister) Elizabeth I of England (daughter) Henry VIII of England (husband) Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (husband) Lady Margaret Butler (paternal grandmother) William Boleyn (paternal grandfather) Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (maternal grandmother) Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (maternal grandfather) Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn (aunt) Joyce Culpeper (aunt) James Boleyn (uncle) Catherine Howard (cousin) Jane Boleyn (sister-in-law) Geoffrey Boleyn (great grandfather) George Boleyn (priest) Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (great great grandfather)

Films	Anna Boleyn (1920) Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Stage	Anne Boleyn (2010 play) Anna Bolena (1830 opera)

Literature	Doomed Queen Anne (2002) Murder Most Royal (1949)

Other	Cultural depictions O Death Rock Me Asleep (poem) "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" (1934 song)

Related	"Crucify" "St Clement"

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