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Anna Boleyn
A queen walks to the scaffold with the whole German film industry watching her go.
What
A German placard of 1920 for the Ufa costume spectacle Anna Boleyn, designed by the Berlin artist Franz Christophe.
Why
Ernst Lubitsch's historical epics were the commercial engine that paid for Weimar cinema's stranger experiments, and they were shot on the same lots by the same crews. The costume picture and the horror picture are siblings, not rivals.
Notice
Christophe came out of the Jugendstil illustration tradition, and the ornamental line here is far more decorative than the flat poster styles that were already displacing it.
“A beheading, drawn beautifully.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Anna Boleyn (1920), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Country / studio
- Germany · Ufa
- Designer
- Franz Christophe
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.8×) of the surviving archival scan (original 700×937px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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