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Bergman is good as Anastasia. By some accounts, this movie
plays fast and loose with history, but works dramatically
partly because of the fascination with the story. Yul
Brynner, however, is, as always obnoxious. Helen Hayes is
excellent. Bergman plays a character based on Anna
Anderson, the woman (who later emigrated to the U.S.) who
claimed to be Anastasia. She is found wandering the
streets of ... well, some European city... on the verge of
madness, when Yul Brynner picks her up, planning to try to
pass her off as the Princess Anastasia! The plan goes
astray-- the Russian aristocrats who escaped the revolution
are unconvinced-- until she meets the Grand Duchess,
Anastasia's real grandmother. In real life, we now know
that Anastasia did die in the fuscillade in the basement of
that house. The question is, where's Alexey? His bones
were never found.
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