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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1956 DVD Release: 07/01/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 45 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 9 Genres: Drama, Period Film

Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner's motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to pass Bergman off as Princess Anastasia, the daughter of the late Czar Nicholas. If the conspirators are successful, they stand to collect the ten million pounds held in trust for Anastasia in the Bank of England. The biggest obstacle facing Brynner and company is the surviving Romanov empress (Helen Hayes), who must be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bergman is the genuine article. Anastasia represented Ingrid Bergman's return to Hollywood after several years' exile following her "scandalous" affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
Yul Brynner - General Bounine
Helen Hayes - Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna
Akim Tamiroff - Chernov
Martita Hunt - Baroness von Livenbaum

Anatole Litvak's 1956 drama Anastasia comes to DVD from Fox Home Entertainment with a widescreen anamorphic transfer. The English soundtrack is offered in Dolby Digital 4.0 Stereo, with French and Spanish soundtracks in Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. Subtitles are available in English and Spanish. The audio commentary track is by John Burlingame, Arthur Laurents, James MacArthur, and Sylvia Stoddard. Also contains Anastasia: Her True Story from A&E's Biography. Other special features include theatrical trailers, historical Movietone newsreels, and a restoration comparison. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide