Anastasia
The only surviving child of the Russian Royal Family hooks up with two con men while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
- Director:Anatole Litvak
- Genre:Drama / History
- Runtime:105 minutes
Cast
Meg Ryan : Anastasia (voice)
John Cusack : Dimitri (voice)
Kelsey Grammer : Vladimir (voice)
Christopher Lloyd: Rasputin (voice)
Hank Azaria : Bartok (voice)
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In 1916, Czar Nicholas II hosts a grand ball at the royal palace celebrating the 300th anniversary of Romanov rule. During this celebration, his mother, Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Angela Lansbury), gives her favorite granddaughter, 8-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia (Kirsten Dunst), a music box and a necklace reading “Together in Paris”, which serves as its key. The ball is interrupted by the arrival of the megalomanic Rasputin, (Christopher Lloyd), a staretz who sold his soul to gain the power of sorcery. Rasputin plans to gain his revenge through a curse to destroy the Romanov family that sparks the Russian Revolution. During the storming of the palace, a servant boy named Dimitri, he distracts the invading Bolsheviks and is knocked unconsious, but his action helps Anastasia and Marie escape the palace, however Anastasia loses her music box in the process. Rasputin attempts to kill Anastasia himself, but falls through the ice in the river and drowns. Anastasia and Marie eventually reach a moving train, but only Marie is able to get on as Anastasia trips and hits her head on the station platform, forcing Marie to leave her behind.
Ten years later, in 1926, Russia is now under Communist rule; Marie, now residing in Paris, has offered a monetary reward for anyone who can return Anastasia to her. Two Russian con men living in Saint Petersburg, Dimitri (John Cusack) and Vladimir (Kelsey Grammer), decide to find a young girl to pass off as Anastasia. Elsewhere, an amnesiac 18-year-old orphan girl named Anya (Meg Ryan) who owns the same necklace as Anastasia, has just left her orphanage and has decided to learn about her past, because she has no recollection of the first eight years of her life. Accompanied by Pooka, a stray puppy, she heads to Saint Petersburg, and soon encounters Dimitri and Vladimir, who recruit her as their “fake” Anastasia. During the trip to Paris, the two men teach Anya how to behave like Anastasia and Anya and Dimitri realize a mutual attraction. In Dimitri’s baggage is Anastasia’s music box. Anya recalls some small facts that she remembers from her past, though nobody realizes it.
Meanwhile, Rasputin is revealed to still be alive, but trapped in limbo as a living corpse: unable to die because Anastasia had not been killed. Bartok, his bat servant, unwittingly brings him his magical reliquary, thus restoring his old powers. Rasputin summons a legion of demons to kill Anya and complete his revenge, resulting in two failed attempts. This includes a narrow escape from a separated train that Anya, Vladmir, and Dimitri jump off to avoid falling to their deaths, and a nightmare aboard a ship en route to Paris from Germany that Anya sleepwalks through until Dimitri rescues her, alerted by Pooka. These failures make him realize he must kill her in person. Read more
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