Anastasia 1956

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Call Number: DVD Drama Anastasia
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"From the play by Marcelle Maurette as adapted by Guy Bolton."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features include: audio commentary by John Burlingame, Arthur Laurents, James MacArthus and Sylvia Stoddard ; "Anastasia, her true story," episode from A&E's program Biography ; movietone newsreels ; restoration comparison ; theatrical trailer.
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.
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth can only be decided by one person--Anastasia's grandmother, the Dowager Empress.
DVD, anamorphic widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.35:1); 4.0 surround, mono.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

True story submitted by jduffy12 on July 27, 2019, 1:34pm This is the true story of the Dowager Emperess

Smoke and mirrors submitted by mandevil on May 30, 2021, 1:20pm Is she or isn’t she the lost Anastasia?