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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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"From the play by Marcelle Maurette as adapted by Guy Bolton."
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth can only be decided by one person--Anastasia's grandmother, the Dowager Empress
Originally released as a motion picture in 1956
Special features include: audio commentary by John Burlingame, Arthur Laurents, James MacArthus and Sylvia Stoddard ; "Anastasia, her true story," episode from A&E's program Biography ; movietone newsreels ; restoration comparison ; theatrical trailer
Music, Alfred Newman ; director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; editing, Bert Bates
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Sacha Pitoeff, Ivan Desny, Natalie Schafer, Gregoire Gromoff, Karel Stepanek, Ina de la Haye, Katherine Kath
Not rated by MPAA
DVD, anamorphic widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.35:1); 4.0 surround, mono
English, French or Spanish language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
1956 Academy Award winner, best actress, Ingrid Bergman