Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 American alternate history drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Arthur Laurents. Set in interwar France, the film follows a plot related to rumors that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, survived the execution of her family in 1918. Russian General Bounine (Yul Brynner), former leader of the White army during the Revolution, and his associates plot to swindle an inheritance of £10 million from the Grand Duchess, using an amnesiac (Ingrid Bergman) who looks remarkably like her. The exiled émigrés of the Russian aristocracy, in particular the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Helen Hayes) of Denmark, must be convinced that their handpicked claimant is legiti

Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 American alternate history drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Arthur Laurents. Set in interwar France, the film follows a plot related to rumors that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, survived the execution of her family in 1918. Russian General Bounine (Yul Brynner), former leader of the White army during the Revolution, and his associates plot to swindle an inheritance of £10 million from the Grand Duchess, using an amnesiac (Ingrid Bergman) who looks remarkably like her. The exiled émigrés of the Russian aristocracy, in particular the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Helen Hayes) of Denmark, must be convinced that their handpicked claimant is legiti