- Description
The dramatisation of the marriage of the British King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) and his second wife, the unfortunate Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold), has received ten Academy Award nominations and one statuette. When Anne begins to seek marriage instead of an illegitimate union, Henry, at her urging, dumps Catherine of Aragon and marries her.
However, this act causes a rift between the Crown and the Church. However, Anne's inability to bear the king the son he desires leads Henry to look for a more suitable candidate.
Cromwell, who figures as Henry's right-hand man, arranges for Anne's condemnation on a trumped-up charge of adultery. And so Anne finds herself on the scaffold while Henry sits dejectedly in Windsor Castle, regretting this reckless political calculation...
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS - TECHNICAL DATA
Music: Georges Delerue
Script: Bridget Boland, John Hale, Maxwell Anderson (divadelní hra)
