Queen Anne speaks German and frees the peasants? This 1936 musical comedy is unhinged.
At the start of the 18th century, British Queen Anne, inspired by her German born lady in waiting, emancipates the country's farmers and peasants.
Production
Lavish 18th-century sets that cost more than the plot makes sense.
Score
Helge Roswaenge's tenor soars over historical nonsense.
Director
Frank Clifford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Nazi Germany's consolidation of power, this British-history musical oddly parallels contemporary 'folk community' rhetoric while disguising it in foreign costume.
Director Karl Anton had fled Nazi Germany by 1939; this 1936 production represents his complicated late-Weimar/early-Nazi career navigating state-controlled cinema.
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