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Release Date:
13 December 1956 (USA)
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Tagline:
From the sensational Broadway stage success that had audiences crying its acclaim! more
Plot:
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her. full summary | add synopsis
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Russian
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Exile
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Russian Easter
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Opportunist
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Grandmother
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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3 nominations
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An enjoyable movie about 'acting'
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Ingrid Bergman | ... | Anna Koreff / Anastasia |
 | 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 / Nini |
| Grégoire Gromoff | ... | Stepan (as Gregoire Gromoff) |
| Karel Stepanek | ... | Mikhail Vlados |
| Ina De La Haye | ... | Marusia (as Ina de la Haye) |
| Katherine Kath | ... | Maxime |
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105 min
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2.55 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
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Australia:PG |
USA:Approved (certificate #18293) |
Canada:G (video rating) |
Finland:S |
UK:U |
West Germany:12
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This movie was based on the story of Anna Anderson, a woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. It was later discovered that, in fact, she was not who she claimed to be; the mystery was solved through DNA examination of a small piece of tissue cut from Anna in an operation years before.
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Dowager Empress:
But oh please, if it should not be you, don't ever tell me.
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Referenced in "What's My Line?: (1957-01-06)" (1957)
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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.