ANASTASIA (DVD/LIVE ACTION/1956/STUDIO CLASSICS)

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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.

• Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt
• Director: Anatole Litvak
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Audience Rating: Unrated
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Original Language): English
• Language (Original Language): French
• Language (Original Language): Spanish
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Language (Subtitled): Spanish
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2003-07-01
• Running Time: 105 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 1956-12-13

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-02-06 Thoroughly enjoyable! The performances by Bergman and Brynner really escalate this film into greatness. I wish more people would see this. Its such a beautiful and subtle film.

Reviewed on 2007-09-04 Great film, horrible voice track! A film for the ages, and it's so controversial because of A.Laurents' screenplay, a thorough critique of the Romanov Dynasty and monarchy in general in 1956 when everybody was running from McCarthy. Ingrid Bergman is so superb, as is Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes.Waht can you say about the scenes between Ingrid and Brynner and Ingrid with Helen Hayes? They are so brilliant! And the p[hotography, the use of CinemaScope! Akim Tamiroff and Martita Hunt are marvellous too. However, this DVD has major flaws with respect to the transmission of sound. The music overwhelms everyone, and the voices are low and not understandable as aresult of many imbakances. There was the Fox Tape, not LBXd but clear and balanced. What the heck happened? . Keep the LBX tapes from Fox Movie Channel and be content, or, if you can get the Chinese DVD import, get it, beautiful sound and color. This release is sad, to be sure, but the Fox Dvds are very bad, and need to be re -done some day by competent people, by people who love film. Look at The Gang's All Here, for example, and other box sets from Fox, the Tyrone Power one..keep the old tapes.

Reviewed on 2007-08-04 Colorized, Brilliant, Moving, Just Utterly First Class This is such a beautiful film. The colorization is certainly a value-added, but nothing can be better than Yule Brenner and Ingred Birgman with a quiet love that comes to fruition. I am an unabashed romantic, and this DVD is my top ten list. Do NOT fall for the Meg Ryan version! That is animated pap. I love Meg Ryan but this (Yule Brenner and Ingred Bergman) is the only real thing). This movie was a perfect evening in every sense of the word.

Reviewed on 2007-05-19 RESTORATION AND EXTRAS MAKE IT GREAT..ER!!!! It's already a great movie but the extras make it greater! Either before viewing or after watching the movie you have the chance to see the Biography channels story on the real Anastasia. I believe this gave me so much more satisfaction because I was able to learn and also to compare it to the fictional story that the movie was. I wont even waste space describing the actors performances except to say ..Magnificant!!!!

Reviewed on 2007-04-10 To be or not be? Absorbing drama of an amnesiac girl who may or may not be the daughter of Czar Nicholas II. The performances are so superb that you or anyone of us are immediately engaged with this tour de force acting. Anatole Livak directed his masterpiece with the talented complicity of Mrs. Ingrid Bergman in her second Academy Award as Best Actress. Kudos for You Brynner who was extraordinary too.

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