Anastasia, based on a play by Marcelle Maurette
and Guy Bolton
8 out of 10
Notes and
thoughts on other books are available at:
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E
and http://realini.blogspot.ro/
Anastasia is
an excellent film.
It is
included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list:
The
brilliant Ingrid Bergman has the role of Anastasia or Anna Koreff
And she won:
-
The Academy Award for Best Actress
in a Leading Role
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And the Golden Globe in the same
category, obviously
Yul Brynner
is equally impressive, even if he was not even nominated for the awards, as the
General Sergei Bounine.
And I believe
that the story is intriguing.
In fact, it
seems that I am unable to accept the explanations connected with this film that
purport to say that
-
Anna Koreff was a fraud
Like other
personages of this narrative, I have doubts…
-
What if she really was Anastasia?
The story
begins with a historical explanation, in which the audience is told about the
tragic end of the czar and his family.
With the
victory- which I see as such a tragedy- affecting my personal life and my
family- of the Bolsheviks, the ruling family is arrested.
They are
then taken all together, the barbarity of the communists had no compassion for
children, and shot dead.
Given the clumsiness
and the infamous inability of the Bolsheviks to accomplish tasks, it was said
that there was a survivor…
-
The Grand Duchess Anastasia
Bounine and
other Russian exiles have been trying for some time to get a hold of the ten
million pounds that were stashed in the Bank of England.
The ruling
family had placed them there and a potential heir could claim them, therefore
Anastasia would be invaluable.
Different impostors
have showed up and one way or another they have been dismissed until Anna
Koreff is found.
General Bounine
is set about training and explaining the ways of the court, the manner of addressing
different people.
Maybe he
does such a great job that we can think of My Fair Lady, Pygmalion in which the
hero makes a lady out of a flower girl.
Of course,
the real conclusion might be the opposite, that there is a lady in each and
every flower girl and education is only needed to bring that out.
Anna Koreff
could be Anastasia after all.
She has
wounds that could have been caused by the executioners or other accidents-
perhaps an explosion.
In the story,
the protagonist crosses into…Romania.
She even
spends time in a hospital in Bucharest and a man comes to talk to her, claiming
that he knows her.
This is of
personal interest, for I live in Bucharest.
A climax is
reached when Anna Koreff or/aka Anastasia has to meet the Dowager Empress Maria
Fedorovna.
The latter
is the ultimate authority and her rejection or stamp of approval would make the
final difference.
A love
story adds spice to the narrative, albeit it may not be the Prince charming
that actually proves a little flawed and interested in material wealth and
titles that gets to conquer, win the heart of…again:
-
Anna Koreff or Anastasia…are they
one and the same?
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