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Anastasia
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6.8Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
Cast
- Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
- Yul Brynner as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
- Helen Hayes as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
- Akim Tamiroff as Boris Adreivich Chernov
- Martita Hunt as Baroness Elena von Livenbaum
- Felix Aylmer as Chamberlain
Themes
- princess
- amnesia
- identity
- exile
- biography
- assumed identity
- 1920s
- anastasia romanowa
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Anatole Litvak
- Screenplay by
- Arthur Laurents
- Based on
- Anastasia , (1952 play), by Marcelle Maurette
- Produced by
- Buddy Adler
- Starring
- Ingrid Bergman , Yul Brynner , Helen Hayes
- Cinematography
- Jack Hildyard
- Edited by
- Bert Bates
- Music by
- Alfred Newman
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- December 13, 1956 ( 1956-12-13 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom United States
- Languages
- English, French
- Budget
- $3.52 million
- Box office
- $4.3 million (US and Canada rentals)
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Encyclopedic overview
Anastasia is a 1956 historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes. The screenplay written by Arthur Laurents is adapted from a 1952 play of the same title by French dramatist Marcelle Maurette, which is in turn inspired by the story of Anna Anderson, the best known of the many Anastasia impostors who emerged after the Imperial family were murdered in July 1918.
Set in interwar France, the film follows a plot related to rumors that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, survived the execution of her family in 1918. Russian General Bounine (Brynner), former leader of the White Army during the Russian Revolution, along with his associates plot to swindle an inheritance of £10 million from the Grand Duchess using an amnesiac (Bergman) who looks remarkably like the missing Anastasia. The exiled émigrés of the Russian aristocracy, in particular the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Hayes), must be convinced that their handpicked claimant is legitimate if the plotters are to get her money.
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