Lady Godiva (1921 film)

Lady Godiva is a 1921 German silent historical film directed by Hubert Moest and starring Hedda Vernon and Eduard von Winterstein.^[1]

Lady Godiva
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Directed by	Hubert Moest
Written by	Ernst Frank Arthur Rehbein
Based on	"Godiva" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Produced by	Walter Caspary
Starring	Hedda Vernon Eduard von Winterstein
Cinematography	Kurt Lande
Production company	Aß-Film
Distributed by	Horos-Film
Release date	14 April 1921 (1921-04-14)
Country	Germany
Language	Silent (German intertitles)

The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Dreier.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[2] Leofric, a cruel earl of England, threatens a cruel death to the father of the beautiful Lady Godiva (Vernon) if she does not agree to marry him. She then suffers indignities because of her determination to be a wife in name only. The people of Coventry plead with her to intervene with her husband after he threatens to burn down their homes. She succeeds, but only on the condition that she ride unclad on a white horse through the town. She does this, but the earl has disregarded the temper of the people. His palace is undermined and collapses, killing all the people inside. Lady Godiva, warned by the court jester, escapes before the catastrophe, and is reunited with her love, the architect.

Cast

• Ernst Deutsch
• Wilhelm Diegelmann
• Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein
• Hedda Vernon as Lady Godiva
• Eduard von Winterstein as Herzog
• Gertrude Welcker
• Toni Zimmerer

Reception

The film was distributed in the United States in 1922, but was barred from the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Classification.^[3]