Anna Boleyn

For the wife of Henry VIII of England, see Anne Boleyn. For other uses, see Anne Boleyn (disambiguation).

Anna Boleyn
US Blu ray & 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
Production company	PAGU
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	3 December 1920 (1920-12-03)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent

Film still

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).

Cast

• 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
• Hilde Müller 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."

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.

See also

• Anne Boleyn in popular culture

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

External links

• Anna Boleyn on IMDb
• Anna Boleyn at AllMovie