Anna and Elizabeth

Anna and Elizabeth
Anna and Elizabeth
	German film poster
German	Anna und Elisabeth
Directed by	Frank Wisbar
Written by	Gina Fink; Frank Wisbar;
Produced by	Hermann Ephraim; Frank Wisbar;
Starring	Dorothea Wieck; Hertha Thiele; Mathias Wieman;
Cinematography	Franz Weihmayr
Edited by	Alice Ludwig
Music by	Paul Dessau
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	13 April 1933;
Running time	74 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Anna and Elizabeth (German: Anna und Elisabeth) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Frank Wisbar and starring Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele and Mathias Wieman.^[1] The film reunited Wieck and Thiele who had starred in Mädchen in Uniform together two years earlier.

The film's sets were designed by Heinrich Beisenherz and Fritz Maurischat.

Synopsis

Elisabeth, a wealthy young aristocratic woman who uses a wheelchair, hears of Anna, a young peasant girl who is apparently able to work miracles. She brings the reluctant village girl to live with her, and appears to have been cured simply through her sheer belief in Anna's powers. However, an attempt to demonstrate Anna's skills to the public fails, and in her despair Elisabeth throws herself off a cliff while Anna returns to her simple village life.

Reception

The film was reviewed in The New York Times following its American release. The review praised the acting of Wieck, but was less impressed with that of Thiele. While admitting that the director had a natural flair for tragedy, the reviewer thought that the film was sometimes so slow-moving that it lapsed into ponderousness.^[2]

Cast

Dorothea Wieck as Elisabeth, Mistress of the manor von Salis
Hertha Thiele as Anna, peasant girl
Mathias Wieman as Mathias Testa
Maria Wanck as Margarete, Elisabeth's sister
Carl Balhaus as Martin
Willy Kaiser-Heyl as pastor
Roma Bahn as Mary Lane
Dorothea Thiess as Anna's mother
Carl Wery as Anna's father
Karl Platen as village doctor
Robert Eckert as estate neighbor
Margarete Kestra as Helena
Doris Thalmer as Nena
Sybil Smolova as Schiefhals

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 530. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
^ "Movie Review - - " Anna und Elisabeth" With Dorothea Wieck and Hertha Thiele - "Liebelei"". The New York Times. 2 July 1933.

External links

Anna and Elizabeth at IMDb

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[1] Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 530. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

[2] "Movie Review - - " Anna und Elisabeth" With Dorothea Wieck and Hertha Thiele - "Liebelei"". The New York Times. 2 July 1933.

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