Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)

Directors

Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast

Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Jan Niklas, Nicolas Surovy, Rex Harrison, Susan Lucci, Elke Sommer

The story

The film begins in December 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…

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