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Anastasia | |
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Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
Screenplay by | Arthur Laurents |
Based on | Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette |
Produced by | Buddy Adler |
Starring | Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner Helen Hayes |
Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
Edited by | Bert Bates |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English French |
Budget | $3.52 million[1] |
Box office | $4.3 million (US and Canada rentals)[2] |
Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes. The film was directed and written by Anatole Litvak and Arthur Laurents, adapting the 1952 play written by Guy Bolton and Marcelle Maurette. It was inspired by the story of Anna Anderson, one of the best known of the many Romanov impostors who began to emerge after the Imperial family was murdered in July 1918.
Anastasia received two nominations at the 29th Academy Awards, with Bergman winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. At the 14th Golden Globe Awards, Bergman and Hayes both received nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, with Bergman winning the category.