Description
Anastasia DVD 1956 / Directed by Anatola Litvak / Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
UPC 4010232015877
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN Hungary
AUDIO: English 4.0, French 2.0 mono, Italian 2.0 Mono, German 2.0 mono, Spanish 2.0 mono
SUBTITLES: English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, German HOH
Total Runtime: 101 minutes
English Summary:
Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Arthur Laurents. Set in interwar France, the film follows the story of a suicidal amnesiac (Ingrid Bergman), whose remarkable resemblance to the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia — the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, who is rumored to have survived the execution of her family — draws her into a plot devised by the former Russian White General Bounine (Yul Brynner) and his associates to swindle from the Grand Duchess an inheritance of £10 million.
Though the last Russian tsar and his family were executed in 1918, rumors and suspicions persist that one of his daughters, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, somehow escaped and was still alive. In 1928 Paris, a sickly woman resembling Anastasia is brought to the attention of former White Russian General Bounine, now the proprietor of a successful Russian-themed nightclub. Bounine knows that while she was in a mental asylum, she told a nun that she was Anastasia. When approached by Bounine and addressed as the grand duchess, she refuses to have anything to do with him. She flees and tries to throw herself into the River Seine, but is stopped.
Bounine meets with his associates Chernov and Petrovin. It turns out that Bounine had repeatedly raised funds from stockholders (eager to gain a share of £10 million belonging to Anastasia held by an English bank) based on Bounine's claim that he had found the woman, although he makes it clear in private that it is all a scam. Finally, however, the stockholders have lost their patience and given him eight days to produce her.
German Summary:
Eine Gruppe russischer Emigranten trifft in Paris um 1920 auf eine junge verwirrte Frau. Die Russen wollen sie dazu bewegen, der Welt zu verkünden, sie sei die Zarentochter Anastasia. Sie wollen an das Geld kommen, das der ermordete Zar einst auf einer englischen Bank deponiert hatte. Der Wortführer der Russen, General Bounine, lehrt die Frau Benehmen und Auftreten einer Zarentochter; ihr wird alles über Anastasias Kindheit beigebracht.
Nach der Schulung wird sie verschiedenen Leuten vorgestellt, die Anastasia kannten. Niemand glaubt wirklich, dass die junge Frau Anastasia ist. Die richtige Härteprobe erfolgt, als sie mit General Bounine nach Dänemark reist. In Kopenhagen soll sie die Zarenmutter Maria Feodorovna, ihre mutmaßliche Großmutter, treffen. Anfangs glaubt die alte Dame nicht, ihre Enkelin vor sich zu haben. Als Anna/Anastasia jedoch aus Nervosität hustet, erinnert sich die Zarenmutter daran, dass auch Anastasia in ihrer Kindheit immer gehustet hat, wenn sie aufgeregt oder nervös war.
In der Zwischenzeit hat Prinz Paul vor, Anastasia zu heiraten. Der als Glücksritter bekannte Prinz hat es ebenfalls auf das Geld der Zarentochter abgesehen. Auf einem Ball will die Zarenmutter die Verlobung zwischen Paul und Anastasia verkünden. Aber Anastasia und General Bounine sind plötzlich verschwunden. Nun erkennt die alte Frau, dass Anna nicht ihre Enkelin war; sie schickt die Gäste nach Hause.
Cast / Besetzung:
- Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff
- Yul Brynner as General Bounine
- Helen Hayes as the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna
- Akim Tamiroff as Boris Adreivich Chernov
- Martita Hunt as Baroness Elena von Livenbaum
- Felix Aylmer as Chamberlain
- Sacha Pitoëff as Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin
- Ivan Desny as Prince Paul von Haraldberg (an invented character)
- Natalie Schafer as Irina Lissemskaia
- Grégoire Gromoff as Stepan
- Karel Stepanek as Mikhail Vlados
- Ina De La Haye as Marusia
- Katherine Kath as Maxime
Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
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Produced by | E. Maurice Adler (Buddy Adler) |
Screenplay by | Arthur Laurents |
Based on | Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette |
Starring | Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner Helen Hayes |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
Edited by | Bert Bates |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English French |