Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
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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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Marvin J. Chomsky
- Genres
- Drama, Television, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 7, 1986 Wide
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Cast
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Amy Irving
as Anna Anderson
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Christian Bale
as Alexis
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Claire Bloom
as Empress Alexandra
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Olivia de Havilland
as Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna
- Susan Engel
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Edward Fox
as Dr. Hauser
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Julian Glover
as Colonel Kobylinski
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Rex Harrison
as Grand Duke Cyril Romanov
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Susan Lucci
as Darya Romanoff
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Jan Niklas
as Prince Erich
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Shane Rimmer
as Harvey Coward
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Omar Sharif
as Nicholas II
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Elke Sommer
as Isabel Von Hohenstauffen
- Nicholas Surovy
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Carol Gillies
as Sasha
- Nicolas Surovy
