Anastasia (1956)
Long before Disney had a bash at this story there was this film starting Ingrid Bergman and Yul Bryner. Some Russian émigrés in Paris want to pass off a troubled young woman as a Russian princess to claim the £10mil of the Tzar’s money sitting in the Bank of England.
This is a really good story with themes of identity that reflect both in the lead character but also in those Russians around her that have fled their homeland following the revolution, the story also nicely leaves in a level of ambiguity towards the identity of girl which keeps the audience and other characters guessing. The problem with this film is that it is very clearly a play that has been converted to the screen but is not very cinematic, throwing in some flashbacks for example could have helped break up the scenes of long dialogue.
4/5 a good story.
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