Anastasia poster
Screenplay Arthur Laurents
Director Anatole Litvak

Anastasia

Tagline: The most amazing conspiracy the world has ever known... and love as it never happened to a man and woman before!

Release Date: 1956-12-13

Duration: 105 minutes

Synopsis

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.

Casting

  • Natalie Schafer
    Irina Lissemskaia / Nini
  • Ingrid Bergman
    Anna Koreff / Anastasia
  • Yul Brynner
    General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
  • Sacha Pitoëff
    Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin
  • Martita Hunt
    Baroness Elena von Livenbaum
  • Felix Aylmer
    Chamberlain
  • Karl Stepanek
    Mikhail Vlados
  • Akim Tamiroff
    Boris Adreivich Chernov
  • Ivan Desny
    Prince Paul von Haraldberg
  • Helen Hayes
    Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna