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Name: Anastasia
Released: 1956-12-18
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt

Anastasia

NR
1h 46m
1956

93%

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Anastasia is the timeless classic film based on Marcelle Maurette's play which is based on the legend about the sole-surviving daughter of Russia's last Czar. A suicidal amnesia victim is chosen by Russian expatriates to impersonate Anastasia, the last surviving member of the Romanov dynasty, heiress to the Russian throne. As such, she becomes part of a scam to collect ten million pounds owed to Anastasia. Is she just impersonating the heiress or is she the real thing?

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Producer:

Buddy Adler

Writer:

Arthur Laurents, Marcelle Maurette, Guy Bolton

Cast:

Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Sacha Pitoeff, Ivan Desny, Natalie Schafer, Gregoire Gromoff, Karel Stepanek, Ina De la Haye, Katherine Kath

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Reviews

Chicago Tribune

Mae Tinee

Beautifully balanced with history and fantasy woven into a background of searing sorrow and royal pomp, this is one of the year's most enjoyable films. It is presented with wit, warmth, delicacy, and skill.

After an absence of seven years from American-made films, beauteous Ingrid Bergman returns triumphantly in Anastasia.

It is a very entertaining movie. Given a chance, Miss Bergman looks as lovely as ever and gives an effective high-tension performance.

Anatole Litvak's Anastasia still stands as the most elegant rendition of a particularly provocative occurrence relating to Nicholas II and his assassinated royal family.

The film's ambiguous ending is mildly disconcerting but its merits are impressive. The excellent cast includes Helen Hayes as a royal old lioness and Yul Brynner as a conspirator with a conscience...

November 6, 2019

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