Anastasia is a 1956 American period drama film starring Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, Russian actor Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes. The film was directed and written by Anatole Litvak and Arthur Laurents, adapting the 1952 playwritten by Guy Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. It was inspired by the story of the late Anna Anderson, one of the best known of the many Romanov impostors who began to emerge after the Imperial family was murdered in July 1918. The film inspired a 1997 animated film, which has become more famous than this 1956 film.
Could an amnesiac refugee named Anna Anderson (Ingrid Bergman) truly be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, purported sole survivor of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, and therefore the rightful heir to the Czar's fortune? Backed by a group of White Russian exiles led by General Bounine (Yul Brynner), she faces her possible grandmother, the imperious Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Helen Hayes), and the fortune-hunting Prince Paul (Ivan Desny).
Victims[]
- Tsar Nicholas II - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- Tsarina Alexandra - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- Grand Duchess Olga - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- Grand Duchess Tatiana - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- Grand Duchess Maria - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- Tsarevich Alexei - Killed by the Bolsheviks off-screen, mentioned. (Fictional Portrayal)
- 10,000,000 Unnamed Russians - Died as a result of the Russian Civil War sparked by the Bolshevik Revolution off-screen, mentioned.
Deaths[]
- Total - 10,000,006
- 10,000,000 Victims of Unknown Gender
- 4 Female
- 2 Male
Kill Counts[]
- Bolsheviks - 10,000,006 (Active)