Anna Christie (1930)

Directed by

Jacques Feyder

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman with a troubled past arrives at her father's barge and tries to start over. But old secrets and a new romance pull her into conflict about who she really is.

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What happens

Anna Christie is a 1930 German-language film adapted from the 1921 Eugene O'Neill play of the same title. It was filmed following the release of the English-language version of the same adaptation earlier in 1930. Both versions feature leading actress Greta Garbo. In the early years of sound films, Hollywood studios produced foreign-language versions of some of their films using the same sets and sometimes the same costumes, with native speakers of the language usually replacing some or all of the original cast. The German-language version of Anna Christie is one of the few that survives. The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at their Culver City, California studio in July and August 1930 (the English-language original had been filmed there in October and November 1929). It premiered in Cologne, Germany on December 2, 1930. Garbo is the only cast member appearing in both versions and looks noticeably different in the two. The German dialog was written by Walter Hasenclever and Frank Reicher, for the most part very closely following Frances Marion's original adaptation. The film was directed by Jacques Feyder using the same cinematographer, Garbo favorite William H. Daniels, but a different crew. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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