The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
193 audience votes
Key crew
- Anatole LitvakDirector
- Arthur LaurentsScreenplay
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ingrid BergmanAnna Koreff / Anastasia
- Yul BrynnerGeneral Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
- Helen HayesDowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
- Akim TamiroffBoris Adreivich Chernov
- Martita HuntBaroness Elena von Livenbaum
- Felix AylmerChamberlain
- Sacha PitoëffPiotr Ivanovich Petrovin
- Ivan DesnyPrince Paul von Haraldberg
- Natalie SchaferIrina Lissemskaia / Nini
- Grégoire GromoffStepan
- Karl StepanekMikhail Vlados
- Ina De La HayeMarusia