Anna Christie (1931 film)

Anna Christie is a 1930 Germanlanguage film adapted from the Eugene ONeill play of the same title and filmed following the release of the Englishlanguage original version of the same adaptation earlier the same year. Both versions feature leading actress Greta Garbo. In the early years of sound films, Hollywood studios produced foreignlanguage versions of some of their films using the same sets and sometimes the same costumes, with native speakers of the language usually replacing some or all of the original cast. While many of those versions no longer exist, the Germanlanguage version of Anna Christie survives.

Chris Christofferson Hans Junkermann, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge in New York, receives a letter from his estranged twentyyearold daughter Anna Christie Christofferson Greta Garbo. She tells him that shell be leaving Minnesota to stay with him. Chris had left Annayears ago to be raised by relatives who live on a farm in the countryside of St. Paul. Chris has never visited his daughter in St. Paul and consequently has not seen her for the pastyears.Anna Christie arrives, an emotionally wounded woman with a dishonorable, hidden past. In order to survive, she has worked in a brothel for two years. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night Chris rescues the sailor Matt Theo Shall and two other displaced sailors from the sea. Anna and Matt soon fall in love with one another and Anna has the best days of her life. However, when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and haunted by her recent past. Matt insists and compels Anna to tell him the truth. She opens her heart to Matt and her father, disclosing the dark secrets of her past. ........

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