What is Anastasia (1956 movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = Anastasia | image = | caption = | director = [[Anatole Litvak]] | producer = [[Maurice Adler|Buddy Adler]] | writer = [[Marcelle Maurette]] (play)<br />[[Guy Bolton]] (adaptation)<br />[[Arthur Laurents]] | starring = [[Ingrid Bergman]]<br />[[Yul Brynner]]<br />[[Helen Hayes]] | music =[[Alfred Newman]] | cinematography = [[Jack Hildyard]] | editing = | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = [[December 13]], [[1956]] (US release) | runtime = 105&nbsp;min. | country = [[United States|US]] | language = [[English language|English]] / [[French language|French]] | budget = }} '''''Anastasia''''' is a [[movie]] made in [[1956]] by [[20th Century Fox]]. The movie was directed by [[Anatole Litvak]]. The movie stars [[Ingrid Bergman]], [[Yul Brynner]], and [[Helen Hayes]]. Other players include [[Akim Tamiroff]] (who earlier worked with Ingrid Bergman in the movie ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (movie)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]''), [[Martita Hunt]] (who has a [[comic]] part as a fussy [[lady-in-waiting]]), and, in a small role, [[Natalie Schafer]] (familiar to [[television]] [[audience]]s from her later role on ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''). This movie was one of many European movies directed by Litvak into the 1950s and 1960s. It earned an [[Academy Award]] for Bergman, who did more movies after this movie. It was nominated for a [[BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay]]. == Historical Basis == The movie is based upon the story of [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]]. The youngest daughter of [[Tsar Nicholas II]], Anastasia was brutally murdered along with her parents and siblings by the [[Bolsheviks]], in an attempt to prevent them from reclaiming power, should they ever escape from captivity. Despite the testimony of Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky and others present at the shooting, many failed to believe that every member of the family had been killed. This rumor was