An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
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Title: Anastasia (1956)
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Cast
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| Ingrid Bergman | ... | Anna Koreff | |
| Yul Brynner | ... | General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine | |
| Helen Hayes | ... | Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Boris Adreivich Chernov | |
| Martita Hunt | ... | Baroness Elena von Livenbaum | |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | Chamberlain | |
| Sacha Pitoëff | ... | Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin (as Sacha Pitoeff) | |
| Ivan Desny | ... | Prince Paul von Haraldberg | |
| Natalie Schafer | ... | Irina Lissemskaia | |
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Grégoire Gromoff | ... | Stepan (as Gregoire Gromoff) |
| Karel Stepanek | ... | Mikhail Vlados | |
| Ina De La Haye | ... | Marusia (as Ina de la Haye) | |
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Katherine Kath | ... | Maxime |
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Russian 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 she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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russian | imperial family | foreign language adaptation | refugee | princess |Taglines:
The most amazing conspiracy the world has ever known, and love as it never happened to a man and woman before! See more »Parents Guide:
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In reality, neither the Grand Duchess Anastasia nor any of her three sisters were ever engaged. See more »
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Michael Powell considered filming a version, with Jennifer Jones in the lead. See more »Goofs
While on the train to Copenhagen, Anna, studying a photograph of the fictional Prince Paul, can't remember how old she was when she was engaged to him. Bounine answers, "Sixteen."In reality, neither the Grand Duchess Anastasia nor any of her three sisters were ever engaged. See more »
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13 December 1956 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$3,520,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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As the woman who may or may not have been the Grand Duchess Anastastia, Ingrid Bergman was welcomed back with open arms by the Hollywood fraternity that had spurned her after her affair with Roberto Rossellini and she won her second Oscar for her performance. It is a fine piece of acting in a film that is all about acting; (Bergman plays a woman called Anna Koreff who is being groomed to pass as the Grand Duchess, though it is no "Pygmalion" as she may well indeed have been the person she is being hired 'to play', though DNA tests later proved the woman in question was not Anastasia).
Yul Brynner is the Russian general who acts as her Professor Higgins and he's excellent. The same year he won an Oscar for "The King and I" but his performance here is just as good. Helen Hayes is superb as the Dowager Empress and there is a terrific turn from the great Martita Hunt as the Empress' lady-in-waiting. Anatole Litvak's direction isn't exciting in 'cinematic' terms but he knows he has a good yarn and he moves it along at a cracking pace. Between them, Bergman, Brynner and Litvak hold you in thrall.