Katherine Kath

Anastasia is the timeless classic film based on Marcelle Maurette's play which is based on the legend about the sole-surviving daughter of Russia's last Czar. A suicidal amnesia victim is chosen by Russian expatriates to impersonate Anastasia, the last surviving member of the Romanov dynasty, heiress to the Russian throne. As such, she becomes part of a scam to collect ten million pounds owed to Anastasia. Is she just impersonating the heiress or is she the real thing?

In 1928 Paris, a group of exiled White Russians claims to find Anastasia (Ingrid Bergman, who won a Best Actress Oscar), the only living heir of Czar Nicholas II. The entire Romanoff royal family was executed in 1918, after the Bolsheviks took power. Based on the true story of an infamous hoax in which a woman named Anna Anderson maintained for years (and was believed by many) to be the Russian Crown Princess. Co-stars Yul Brynner.

ANASTASIA is the timeless classic film based on Marcelle Maurette's play which is based on the legend about the sole-surviving daughter of Russia's last Czar. A suicidal amnesia victim is chosen by Russian expatriates to impersonate Anastasia, the last surviving member of the Romanov dynasty, heiress to the Russian throne. As such, she becomes part of a scam to collect ten million pounds owed to Anastasia. Is she just impersonating the heiress or is she the real thing?