Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
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This two-part TV movie recounts the life of Anna Anderson, who until the day she died at age 82 insisted that she was really Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Czar Nicholas. Anna first makes her claim in 1920, when she is an inmate in a Berlin asylum. Her story of escape from the Bolsheviks who killed the rest of her family in 1918 seems so vivid that many Russian expatriates are willing to believe her. The film concludes in 1928, with Anna restating her claim before the surviving Romanovs living in New York. Amy Irving plays the leading character in a lady-or-the-tiger fashion, so that we never know if she truly swallows her own tale or if she's merely a clever charlatan. Olivia DeHavilland, Rex Harrison, Claire Bloom, Omar Sharif and Susan Lucci co-star in this opulent, location-filmed production, which originally aired on December 7 and 8, 1986. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 200 mins
Complete Cast:
- Amy Irving - Anna Anderson
- Susan Lucci - Darya Romanoff
- Susan Engel
- Shane Rimmer - Harvey Coward
- Carol Gillies - Sasha
- Jan Niklas - Prince Erich
- Olivia de Havilland - Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna
- Rex Harrison - Grand Duke Cyril Romanov
- Claire Bloom - Empress Alexandra
- Christian Bale - Alexis
- Julian Glover - Colonel Kobylinski
- Nicholas Surovy
- Elke Sommer - Isabel Von Hohenstauffen
- Edward Fox - Dr. Hauser
- Omar Sharif - Nicholas II
- Director(s):
- Marvin J. Chomsky
- Writer(s):
- James Goldman
- Producer(s):
- Marvin J. Chomsky
- Categories:
- Television
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