Anna Boleyn

{{for-multi|the wife of Henry VIII of England|Anne Boleyn|other uses|Anne Boleyn (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Anna Boleyn

| image = Anna Boleyn (1920) poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Ernst Lubitsch

| producer = Paul Davidson

| writer = {{ubl|Norbert Falk|(as Fred Orbing)|Hanns Kräly}}

| starring = {{ubl|Henny Porten|Emil Jannings|Paul Hartmann}}

| music = {{ubl|Eduard Prasch (Original)|Javier Pérez de Azpeitia (2006)}}

| cinematography = Theodor Sparkuhl

| editing =

| studio = PAGU

| distributor = UFA

| released = {{Film date|1920|12|3|df=y}}

| runtime = 118 minutes

| country = Germany

| language = Silent film

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.

The film was produced by Paul Davidson's Union Film, a subsidiary of the giant German company UFA. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter. 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).{{sfn|Kreimeier|p=59}}

Plot summary

File:Anna Boleyn (1920) by Ernst Lubitsch.webm

Cast

{{cast listing|

Henny Porten as Anna Boleyn
Emil Jannings as Henry VIII
Paul Hartmann as Sir Henry Norris
Ludwig Hartau as the Duke of Norfolk
Aud Egede-Nissen as Jane Seymour
Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein as Queen Catherine
{{ill|Hilde Müller|de}} as Princess Marie
Maria Reisenhofer as Lady Rochford
Ferdinand von Alten as Marc Smeton
Adolf Klein as Cardinal Wolsey
Paul Biensfeldt as Jester
Wilhelm Diegelmann as Cardinal Campeggio
Friedrich Kühne as Archbishop Cranmer
Karl Platen as Physician
Erling Hanson as Count Percy
Sophie Pagay as Nurse
Joseph Klein as Sir William Kingston

}}

Reception

Anna Boleyn was among Mary Pickford's favorite films, calling it "an example of superb direction and splendid acting, especially that of Emil Jannings. It was the first time on the screen that a King had been made human. It has subtle, satirical humor."{{cite journal |last=Howe |first=Herbert |date=January 1924 |title=Mary Pickford's Favorite Stars and Films |url=https://archive.org/stream/pho26chic#page/n31/mode/2up |journal=Photoplay |location=New York |publisher=Photoplay Publishing Company |access-date=4 September 2015 }}

Home media

The film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin" in 2005–2007 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

Bibliography

{{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Kreimeier}} | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | location = Berkeley | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}