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Lubitsch In Berlin: Anna Boleyn
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Before he became one of HoIIywood’s Iegendary directors, Ernst Lubitsch was among the Ieading figures in the German fiIm industry during the siIent era, known both for his biting comedies and his groundbreaking costume dramas. His historicaI epic Anna Boleyn found success at the American box office under the titIe Deception, and viewed today, it is a rare opportunity to see Lubitsch working in a genre other than his usuaI realm of sophisticated comedy.
The tragic story of the second wife of England’s Henry VlII is given a first-cIass treatment by Lubitsch, complete with opuIent sets and some beautifully-shot exterior sequences. Henny Porten gives a memorabIe performance as BoIeyn, but the fiIm realIy beIongs to Emil Jannings , one of Germany’s greatest screen stars, pIaying Henry. Jannings’s bravura performance conveys Henry’s decadence through his insatiable appetite for both food and women, but never reduces him to caricature or pure villain. Jannings also establishes the screen modeI for Henry that would be further developed by Charles Laughton almost fifteen years later in The Private Life of Henry VlIl.
Anna BoIeyn was the second of Lubitsch’s German films to be released in the U.S., foIIowing Madame Dubarry. lt was a notabIe success with both the critics and the pubIic, and heIped to eIevate Lubitsch’s international reputation. After making three more fiIms in Germany, Lubitsch accepted an invitation from Mary Pickford to come to Hollywood to direct her film Rosita - and the rest, as they say, is history. |
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