Plot
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
Cast
as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
as Boris Adreivich Chernov
as Baroness Elena von Livenbaum
as Chamberlain
as Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin
as Prince Paul von Haraldberg
as Irina Lissemskaia / Nini
as Stepan
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Reviews
Whilst this is certainly a lavish and luxuriant production, somehow the sum of the parts just don't add up to much of an whole. Yul Brynner is the ambitious, former general-turned-restauranteur "Bounine" who has been, for many a year, convincing his financial backers that he has discovered the last surviving child of the assassinated Czar Nicholas II. He has discovered the sickly and troubled "An…