Anne of the Thousand Days DVD 1969 Anna ezer napja / Directed by Charles Jarrott / Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos

UPC 5996051041213

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 139 minutes

English Summary:

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 British drama distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn. The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson. Anderson employed blank verse for parts of his play, but most examples of this were removed from the screenplay. One blank verse episode that was retained was Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London. The opening of the play was changed, with Thomas Cromwell's telling Henry VIII the outcome of the trial and Henry's recalling his marriage to Anne rather than Anne's speaking first and then Henry's remembering in flashback.

The film begins in 1536 when Henry VIII (Richard Burton) considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn: then, in a long flashback which takes up virtually the entire film, the whole truth is revealed. Starting in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife Catherine of Aragon (Irene Papas). He is enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of one of his courtiers, Sir Thomas Boleyn; but the king is bored with her too. At a court ball, he notices Mary's 18-year-old sister Anne (Geneviève Bujold), who has returned from her education in France. She is engaged to the son of the Earl of Northumberland, and they have received their parents' permission to marry. The king, however, is enraptured with Anne's beauty and orders Cardinal Wolsey, his Lord Chancellor, to break the engagement.

Hungarian Summary:

VIII. Henrik, megelégelvén Aragóniai Katalinnal kötött fiú-trónörökös nélküli házasságát, "körülnéz" udvarának asszonyai és lányai között. Igy akad meg a szeme Boley Annán, akit a pápa kiátkozása ellenére is feleségül vesz és inkább új egyházat alapít, mely Anglia sorsát örökre megváltoztatja. Boleyn Annánál is akad azonban szebb lány, Jane Seymour úrnő személyében...

Cast / Szereplők:

T.P. McKenna played the role of Henry VIII himself in the debut feature of John Walsh, titled Monarch.