Anna Boleyn (1920)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

drama film, silent film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

6

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1920 silent film from Germany follows the brief reign of Anne Boleyn as the second wife of King Henry VIII. It focuses on her romance with the king and the political forces that lead to her downfall.

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What happens

Anna Boleyn (U.S. title: Deception) is a 1920 German historical film in six acts, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It tells the story of the second marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn, and stars Emil Jannings as Henry VIII and Henny Porten as Anne. The film was produced by Paul Davidson's Union Film, a subsidiary of the giant German company UFA. The film cost an estimated 8 million marks to make, but was able to recoup this from the sale of the American rights alone which brought in $200,000 (14 million marks). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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