Anastasia (1956)

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Movie
German title Anastasia
Original title Anastasia
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1956
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Anatole Litvak
script Arthur Laurents
production Buddy Adler
for 20th Century Fox
music Alfred Newman
camera Jack Hildyard
cut Bert Bates
occupation
synchronization

Anastasia is an American film drama directed by Anatole Litvak from 1956. The script is based on the play of the same name by Marcelle Maurette . The German premiere of the film, shot in Cinemascope, was on February 22, 1957.

action

A group of Russian emigrants met a confused young woman in Paris around 1920. The Russians want to get her to announce to the world that she is the Tsar's daughter Anastasia . They want to get the money that the murdered Tsar once deposited in an English bank. The Russian spokesman, General Bounine, teaches the woman the behavior and appearance of a tsar's daughter; she is taught everything about Anastasia's childhood.

After the training, she will be introduced to various people who knew Anastasia. Nobody really believes the young woman is Anastasia. The real test comes when she travels to Denmark with General Bounine . In Copenhagen she is supposed to meet the Tsar's mother Maria Feodorovna , her alleged grandmother. At first, the old lady doesn't think she's looking at her granddaughter. But when Anna / Anastasia coughs out of nervousness, the Tsar's mother remembers that Anastasia always coughed in her childhood when she was excited or nervous.

In the meantime, Prince Paul plans to marry Anastasia. The prince, known as a soldier of fortune, is also after the Tsar's daughter's money. The Tsar's mother wants to announce the engagement between Paul and Anastasia at a ball. But Anastasia and General Bounine suddenly disappeared. Now the old woman realizes that Anna was not her granddaughter; she sends the guests home.

background

The historical person Anna Anderson appeared after 1920 with the claim that she was the daughter of the Tsar, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova , who had survived the murder of her family by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

The film marked the Hollywood comeback of Ingrid Bergman , who had not been cast by US producers for many years because of her love affair with Roberto Rossellini , who was initially married to another woman . The film constructions come from Andrej Andrejew . René Hubert designed the costumes .

Also in 1956 was the German film Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar, made by Falk Harnack , with Lilli Palmer in the title role. In contrast to Anatole Litvak's feature film from 1956, it is based on an actually surviving Tsar's daughter. Anastasia (1986) , directed by Marvin J. Chomsky , was released in 1986 . There is also an American cartoon Anastasia, produced in 1997 .

Reviews

“Staged as a romantic drama on the edge of world history; psychologically interesting and played excellently, ”said the film service . In general, the film offers “entertainment at a high level”. For Cinema , Anastasia was a "melodrama with a great Ingrid Bergman as the Tsar's daughter". It is "[r] omantic and lavishly beautiful".

The film critic Leonard Maltin said that the “brilliant cast” made the film “remarkable”.

Awards

Won the Oscar for her acting performance: Ingrid Bergman (1945)

At the Academy Awards in 1957 Ingrid Bergman was awarded her second Oscar in the category Best Actress after Lady Alquist's House (1944). Was nominated Anastasia also in the category Best Original Score (Alfred Newman).

At the Golden Globe Awards in 1957 , both Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes were nominated for Anastasia in the category of Best Actress - Drama . Bergman was able to prevail in the end. They also won a prize from the New York Film Critics Circle as Best Actress .

Yul Brynner won an award for his role of the General Bounine National Board of Review as Best Actor .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Anna / Anastasia Ingrid Bergman Eleanor Noelle
General Bounine Yul Brynner Klaus Miedel
Maria Feodorovna Helen Hayes Roma train
Chernov Akim Tamiroff Bum Kruger
Baroness von Livenbaum Martita Hunt Friedel Schuster
Chamberlain Felix Aylmer Otto Stoeckel
Piotr Petrovin Sacha Pitoëff Gerd Martienzen
Prince Paul Ivan Desny Ivan Desny
Irina Lissemskaia Natalie Schafer Tilly Lauenstein
Mikhail Vlados Karel Štěpánek Konrad Wagner
Maxim Katherine Kath Gisela Trowe
from Drivnitz Eric Pohlmann Walter Bluhm
Grisha Peter Sallis Hugo Schrader
Xenia Tamara Shayne Ursula War

literature

  • Peter Kurth: Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar. The secret of Anna Anderson. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989, ISBN 3-404-11511-2 .
  • Marcelle Maurette, Guy Bolton : Anastasia. Play in three acts . Bühnenverlag Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anastasia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ See cinema.de
  3. ↑ "Inspired casting makes this film exceptional." Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's 2005 Movie & Video Guide . Plume, 2004, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Anastasia. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on October 27, 2019 .