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Anonymous is a 2011 political thriller and historical drama film. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron Read More..

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Description	Anonymous is a 2011 political thriller and historical drama film. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts. It stars Rhys Ifans as de Vere and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I of England.Set within the political atmosphere of the Elizabethan court, the film presents Lord Oxford as the true author of William Shakespeare's plays, and dramatizes events around the succession to Queen Elizabeth I, and the Earl of Essex Rebellion against her. De Vere is depicted as a literary prodigy and the Queen's sometime lover, with whom she has a son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, only to discover that he himself may be the Queen's son by an earlier lover. De Vere eventually sees his suppressed plays performed through a frontman (Shakespeare), using his production of Richard III to support a rebellion led by his son and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.. The insurrection fails, and as a condition for sparing the life of their son, the Queen declares that de Vere will never be known as the author of his plays and poems.The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and Studio Babelsberg and distributed by Columbia Pictures, Anonymous was released on October 28, 2011 in 265 theatres in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, expanding to movie theatres around the world in the following weeks. The film was a box-office flop and received mixed reviews, with critics praising its performances and visual achievements, but criticizing the film's time-jumping format, factual errors, and the filmmakers' promotion of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.Robert Sawyer,'Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11',in Critical Survey, Berghahn publishers, Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring) 2013 pp.19-32, p.28:'While the rivalry with Marlowe is not a central feature of the movie,wild conjecture is. As Douglas Lanier has recently posited, the movie displays a ‘pile-up of factual errors’, borrowing more from a long ‘list of intercinematic’ references rather than any reliance on ‘fidelity to the verifiable historical record’.
Description	Anonymous is a 2011 political thriller and historical drama film. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts. It stars Rhys Ifans as de Vere and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I of England.Set within the political atmosphere of the Elizabethan court, the film presents Lord Oxford as the true author of William Shakespeare's plays, and dramatizes events around the succession to Queen Elizabeth I, and the Earl of Essex Rebellion against her. De Vere is depicted as a literary prodigy and the Queen's sometime lover, with whom she has a son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, only to discover that he himself may be the Queen's son by an earlier lover. De Vere eventually sees his suppressed plays performed through a frontman (Shakespeare), using his production of Richard III to support a rebellion led by his son and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.. The insurrection fails, and as a condition for sparing the life of their son, the Queen declares that de Vere will never be known as the author of his plays and poems.The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and Studio Babelsberg and distributed by Columbia Pictures, Anonymous was released on October 28, 2011 in 265 theatres in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, expanding to movie theatres around the world in the following weeks. The film was a box-office flop and received mixed reviews, with critics praising its performances and visual achievements, but criticizing the film's time-jumping format, factual errors, and the filmmakers' promotion of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.Robert Sawyer,'Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11',in Critical Survey, Berghahn publishers, Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring) 2013 pp.19-32, p.28:'While the rivalry with Marlowe is not a central feature of the movie,wild conjecture is. As Douglas Lanier has recently posited, the movie displays a ‘pile-up of factual errors’, borrowing more from a long ‘list of intercinematic’ references rather than any reliance on ‘fidelity to the verifiable historical record’.

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Director	Roland Emmerich
Director
Story
Story
Screenplay
Screenplay
Writer	John Orloff
Writer
Based on
Based on
Cinematography	Anna Foerster
Cinematography
Editing	Peter R. Adam
Editing

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Starring	Rhys Ifans , Vanessa Redgrave , Joely Richardson , David Thewlis , Xavier Samuel , Sebastian Armesto , Rafe Spall , Edward Hogg , Jamie Campbell Bower , Mark Rylance , Trystan Gravelle , Derek Jacobi
Starring
Music	Harald Kloser , Thomas Wander
Music
Runtime	130 minutes
Runtime
Country	Germany,United Kingdom
Country
Language	English
Language
Genre
Genre

PRODUCTION

Producer	Roland Emmerich , Larry Franco , Robert Leger
Producer
Studio	Anonymous Pictures,Centropolis Entertainment,Relativity Media,Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures
Studio
Distributor	Columbia Pictures
Distributor
Released	2011/09/11 (Toronto International Film Festival) /2011/10/28 (United Kingdom) /2011/11/10 (Germany) (df) =y
Released
Budget	$30 million
Budget
Gross	$15.4 million
Gross