Word: anastasia
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Even moviegoers flocking to see Actress Ingrid Bergman in her current hit role as Anastasia have had to leave their theaters with the question unanswered: Was the bewildered, scarred and unstrung girl who claimed to have escaped alive from that Uralian basement really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the Czar's fourth daughter? For 35 years the question has been asked and answered, but until last week never officially settled...
Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a dear little emperor and his cosy family. They were all murdered. But a rumor soon spread: one of the dear little daughters hadn't died. Her name, they whisper, is Anastasia...
...empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The royal problem or mystery of Anastasia is romantic and intriguing. The movie about her, however...
Under the surprisingly unimaginative direction of Anatole Litvak the film plays a sad game of Hollywood tag with a Romanoff myth. Ingrid Bergman, the poor heroine, is taken in tow by a group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real...
Ingrid Bergman makes us want to belive in Anastasia. No one else in the film helps...