Search - Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1986 DVD Release: 10/31/2006 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Studio: Ardustry Home Entertainment Members Wishing: 11 Genres: Drama, Mystery, Biopic [feature]

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

Amy Irving - Anna Anderson
Claire Bloom - Empress Alexandra
Rex Harrison - Grand Duke Cyril Romanov
Susan Lucci - Darya Romanoff
Omar Sharif - Nicholas II