Anastasia (film, 1956)

See also: Anastasia

Anastasia is an American film carried out by Anatole Litvak and left in 1956.

Synopsis

Paris, 1928. Russian exiled white, the Bounine general and his accomplices Chernov and Petrovin project to recover by all the means the fortune of the tsar Nicolas II, blocked out of Russia after the execution of the sovereign and of his family by the Bolchevik S, ten years earlier. As rumors circulate that young person of his/her daughters, the large-duchess Anastasia, would have been saved and would live under an assumed identity, they decide to find an young girl resembling to him in order to make it pass for it. At this point in time the day of Russian Passover, they prevent an unknown factor from committing suicide while jumping of a quay of the the Seine. Amnesic and vaguely resembling made descriptions of Anastasia, the named young woman Anna Koreff hesitates, then lets himself persuade by Bounine. She learns her role from heiress with zeal, then is presented to the members of the Russian imperial family, exiled them also in Paris.

Comment

The film is freely inspired by actual facts. It recalls partly the history Anna Anderson, an young woman discovered with Berlin whereas she was going to commit suicide, and interned in an asylum. It is there that she claimed to be the large-duchess Anastasia. Of followed a very long polemic: is or it is not the large-duchess?

Data sheet

  • Title: Anastasia

  • Realization: Anatole Litvak
  • Production: Buddy Adler
  • Scenario: Marcelle Maurette (part), Guy Bolton and Arthur Laurents (adaptation)
  • Music: Alfred Newman
  • Year: 1956
  • Country: The United States the United States
  • Kind: history, drama

Distribution

  • Anna Koreff/Grande-duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna: Ingrid Bergman
  • General Sergueï Pavlovitch Bounine: Yul Brynner
  • Empress dowager Maria Fedorovna: Helen Beam
  • Boris Adreivitch Chernov: Akim Tamiroff
  • Baroness Elena von Livenbaum: Martita Hunt
  • Chamberlain : Felix Aymler
  • Piotr Ivanovitch Petrovin: Sacha Pitoeff
  • Prince Paul von Haraldberg: Ivan Desny
  • Irina `Nini' Lissemskaia: Natalie Schafer
  • Stépan : Gregoire Gromoff
  • Mikhaïl Vlados: Karel Stepanek
  • Marusia : Ina of $the Hague
  • Maxime: Katherine Kath

Rewards

Ingrid Bergman gained the Oscar of the best actress. Alfred Newman was nominated in the category Oscar of the best film music, but the reward returned to Victor Young for the Round the world tour in quatre-ving days.

Bonds

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  • Card Allociné

Simple: Anastasia (1956 film)

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