• Source: Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

      • Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (also titled Anastasia: The Story of Anna) is a 1986 American-Austrian-Italian made-for-television biographical film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison (in his last performance), Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif, Christian Bale (in his first film) and Jan Niklas. The film was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the book The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth. It was originally broadcast in two parts.


      Plot


      The film begins in the December of 1916, at a lavish ballroom gathering just before the Russian Revolution, and moves to the 1917 February Revolution, the Imperial family's forced exile to Siberia that summer after Tsar Nicholas II's forced abdication in March, the late 1917 October Revolution, the Communist takeover, the start of the Russian Civil War, and then July 1918, when the Romanovs are executed. The film then revolves around a woman named Anna Anderson, who believes that she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the Tsar's youngest daughter. Anna first tells her story in the 1920s, when she was an inmate in a Berlin asylum after her suicide attempt. Her story of escaping from the Bolsheviks seemed so vivid that many Russian expatriates were willing to believe her. She slowly gains more trust, but the other Romanov exiles are very hesitant to believe her tale and send her away.
      Anna travels to the American branches of the family in New York City in 1928, and Nicholas's mother, Dowager Empresss Maria Feodorovna, dies in her native Denmark. America's expatriate Romanovs also eventually publicly denounce her as an impostor and coldly snub her at the Dowager Empress's funeral, which causes her to leave the country in 1931 and return to Germany. The film culminates in 1938 with Anna trying to sue the surviving Romanovs, demanding that they recognize her as Anastasia but never revealing whether or not she is or isn't. The epilogue's narrator states that the court case ended in 1970, with Anna not being able to prove herself or to be disproven as the Grand Duchess, and that she eventually moved back to the United States and settled in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she died in 1984.


      Cast


      Amy Irving as Anna Anderson
      Olivia de Havilland as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
      Rex Harrison as Grand Duke Cyril Romanov
      Jan Niklas as Prince Erich
      Nicolas Surovy as Serge Markov
      Susan Lucci as Darya Romanoff
      Elke Sommer as Isabel Von Hohenstauffen
      Edward Fox as Dr. Hauser
      Claire Bloom as Tsarina Alexandra
      Omar Sharif as Tsar Nicholas II
      Jennifer Dundas as Grand Duchess Anastasia
      Christian Bale as Tsarevich Alexei
      Andrea Bretterbauer as Sonya Markov
      Sydney Bromley as Herbert
      Arnold Diamond as Dr. Markov
      Carol Gillies as Sasha
      Julian Glover as Colonel Eugene Kobylinsky
      Rachel Gurney as Grand Duchess Victoria. Gurney also played Czarina Alexandra in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of 'Holiday in Spala' by Royce Ryton (broadcast on 25 July 1970).
      Betty Marsden as Princess Troubetskaya
      Tim McInnerny as Yakovlev
      Angela Pleasence as Clara
      Julia Koehler as one of the three sisters


      Awards




      See also


      Romanov impostors
      Ipatiev House


      References




      External links


      Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna at IMDb
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