"Restored in collaboration with the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin, the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, the Deutschen Filminstitut" " DIF Wiesbaden, and the F. W. Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden." "We thank the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milan, for their warm support and for making available the tinted nitrate print." "A historical drama in 6 acts by Fred Orbing and Hanns Kraly" "Direction:" "Ernst Lubitsch" "Set Decoration:" "Kurt Richter Cinematography:" "Theodor Sparkuhl" "Technical Direction:" "Kurt Waschneck Costumes:" "Uli Hubert" "CAST:" "Henry ("Heinrich") Vlll, King of England:" "Emil Jannings" "Queen Catherine ("Katharina"):" "Hedwig Pauli" "Princess Marie ("Maria"):" "Hilde Muller Duke of Norfolk:" "Ludwig Hartau" "Anne ("Anna") Boleyn, his niece:" "Henny Porten" "Sir Henry ("Heinrich") Norris:" "Paul Hartmann" "Jane ("Johanna") Seymour:" "Aud Egede Nissen" "Lady Rochford:" "Maria Reisenhofer" "Mark Smeaton ("Marc Smeton"):" "Ferdinand von Alten" "Cardinal Wolsey:" "Adolf Klein" "Cardinal Campeggio:" "Wilhelm Diegelmann" "Archbishop Cranmer ("Crahmer"):" "Friedrich Kuhne" "The jester:" "Paul Biensfeldt The physician:" "Karl Platen" "Count Perry ("Perey"):" "Erling Hanson The nurse:" "Sophie Pagay" "Sir William Kingston, commandant of the tower:" "Josef Klein" "On the journey from France to England" "Finally back in the homeland." "Now you shall soon be lady-in-waiting to the Queen of England." "Henry Norris." "The Duke of Norfolk, your uncle, sends me to accompany you to him." "Lady Anne Boleyn has arrived." "I shall now speak with him!" "On the name-day of Queen Catherine of England." "Princess Marie." "I'm so very happy, my child, because today the King cannot stay away." "His Majesty the King has not yet returned from the hunt." "The congratulations shall begin only when the King arrives at the castle." "Henry Vlll, King of England." "Henry Norris, ride to the king presently." "Notify the Queen that I'm coming." "The congratulatory reception." "Henry's smiling, the sun is shining, Cathy's sitting home and crying..." "Go home to Katie, Leave us the pastry!" "I was looking forward so much to being introduced to the Queen!" "The King!" "For this day, at least, I expected a little more attention, given the company I'm entertaining." "The company you're entertaining is so barely attractive that " "The Lady's afraid of me?" "You won't run away from me again, then?" "My niece." "A beautiful niece." "Tell me, do you know you would have lost your head, had it not been - so beautiful?" "!" "You are unjust with her!" "Dear Anne, I thought you had closen King Henry over your Henry Norris." "The Fool informed me otherwise." "If you are no longer angry with me, await me this evening at the garden window of your room:" "I shall come wearing a black cloak, to hear a word of pardon from you." " Henry Norris" "You've got me wrong, King Henry!" "You must be mine, - even if it costs the crown of England!" "You - the King's!" "Are you aware that I need only say YES to become the Queen of England?" "" "Beautiful Lady" "Sweetest of All Ladies" "The next morning." "Cardinal Lord Chancellor Wolsey, on the King's orders." "Catherine" " You have falled to provide a male her to the throne." "Declare yourself WIII Ing to divorce so that I may marry again." " Henry" "Never!" "Lord Chancellor Wolsey, I command you immediately to call the whole of England's church leaders to annul my marriage!" "An annulment without the permission of the Pope?" "" "I have a solution." "I'm here for service to the court." "I'm here to offer you the crown." "You have a holy duty to fulfill, - you must endow England with an heir to the throne!" "The annulment court." "King Henry, appear before the court!" "Queen Catherine, appear before the court!" "...We hereby call upon England's high church leaders to annul the marriage of King Henry to Catherine of Aragon, who has failed to bring any benediction to the land " "Cardinal Campeggio, with a message from the Pope." "Representatives of God:" "The sanctity of marriage is inviolable." "Curse and damnation shall befall anyone" "Who moves to annul King Henry's marriage." "Clement VIII, Through the Providence of God, the Pope." "I, King Henry the Eighth, declare myself the sole head of the church of England." "From today on, no-one shall stand between God and myself!" "He who is of different mind, leave the courtroom." "The marriage is annulled!" "Now I shall compose a wedding poem for Anne Boleyn." "If the King wants to chase me away, let him do it himself!" "Don't you know that Anne Boleyn is to become Queen?" "Now it is too late, Henry." "This is your doing - this is not Anne's will!" "Did you not receive my order to leave the castle?" "You shall ensure that Princess Marie leaves the town tomorrow before the coronation!" "On the day of the coronation." "You shall ensure that the people cheer the King and Queen Anne." "Any demonstration in favour of the former Queen Catherine is to be suppressed with force." "Lady Jane, today I must be England's most beautiful woman!" "Catherine is our lawful Queen!" "The coronation is beginning, and you are not yet prepared!" "Hail Queen Anne" "Do you see how the people cheer for you?" "!" "All the people plead along with us:" "Restore our hapless Queen Catherine to your favour!" "Hail Princess Marie!" "Tear the crown off of her head!" "Queen Anne wishes you a prompt recovery." "Are you happy now, Anne?" "!" "" "After all, I'm the Queen of England." "Smeaton wishes to recite to you his new poem." "From which heavens shall I plunder sounds of the spheres," "To regale the Queen of Beauty?" "Mouth's roses, golden locks' glimmer, Breast's snow, nape's marble shimmer!" "Sir Henry Norris." "I am recovered, and report once more for service to Your Majesty." "You have served me so poorly that I am dispensing with you." "Beware of Smeaton!" "The poem was not yet finished." "You don't give a damn about my amusement!" "How about a spring festival?" "Beautiful elves in gossamer vestments..." "A spring festival!" "The spring festival." "Have you seen the King?" "What's good enough for Henry Norris has to be good enough for Mark Smeaton!" "At last, England will receive an heir to the throne!" "It must be a boy!" "Prayers shall be offered in every church in the land, that Heaven bless England with a male heir to the throne!" "On the day of the birth." " A girl " "Hail Queen Anne!" "Send that mob to the devil!" "Does the King know -?" "The King!" "The King!" "The Queen is waiting " "Your Royal Highness, Princess Elizabeth." "Lady Jane, you shall accompany me on the hunt." "Are you so willing to relinquish him to another woman?" "Some day you'll share Catherine's fate!" "Evening." "Take solace:" "Bad luck at gambling - lucky in love." "There once was a Queen, Ki- ka" " Konigin." "In the company of a knight, Ri- ra" " Ritter ihin." "The knight was neither shy nor tame," "What the fair lady offered up to him, - he took." "But as for the King, - hey, hurrah!" "He'd soon grown a mighty set of horns." "Sir Norris is familiar with the end of this song." "Not here!" " Tomorrow at the joust you can test your courage!" "To make it clear, the hero of the song is Henry Norris!" "And who is the" " King?" "Speak!" "Your Majesty is being shamefully deceived." "Lies and lies again!" "" "Queen Anne and Henry Norris are friends from youth..." "Does this child bear any likeness to me whatsoever?" "It has your eyes and your mouth." "Is this how you serve your Queen?" "I serve you as you - served Catherine!" "For my child's sake, stay away from the King!" "You shall be the most beautiful woman at the joust today." "I am still Queen!" "No Queen humiliates herself so!" "Henry Norris mustn't leave this joust alive, - you know your reward!" "Henry!" "I must take Your Majesty into custody at the order of the King." "It cannot be!" " Only the purest relations..." "Be happy - finally you have a plausible reason." "You brought Anne Boleyn to me - now see to it that she disappears!" "Your accuser!" "Here is the indictment." "You can testify that every word is a fabrication!" "On the day of the hearing." "Queen Anne stands accused, in matters of marital fidelity..." "With the Queen, you have " "He's lying out of vengeance - for I rejected his shameful advances!" "So you too, Smeaton?" "The Queen answered your prayers too?" "Hang him!" "Smeaton has confessed." "Let him repeat that in front of me!" "The death sentence." "Just this one thing, - allow me to bid my child farewell." "Henry VIII." "King of England." "He signed it!"