Anastasia (1956)

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Anastasia
DVD Price: $9.99
As of Oct 13 21:13 EDT (details)


Directed by	Anatole Litvak
Cast	Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Allan Cuthbertson, Ivan Desny and Natalie Schafer
Theatrical Release	December 13, 1956
DVD Release	July 1, 2003
Running Time	105 minutes
MPAA Rating	Unrated
UPC Code	024543060918
Buy this item	$9.99 at Amazon.com As of Oct 13 21:13 EDT (details) 1 DVD, 20th Century Fox, Usually ships in 24 hours, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 4.0), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) Or 53 new from $5.87, 20 used from $4.00, 1 collectible from $14.98

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Average user review:

(45 reviews)

Thoroughly enjoyable!

The performances by Bergman and Brynner really escalate this film into greatness. I wish more people would see this. Its such a beautiful and subtle film. February 6, 2008

Great film, horrible voice track!

A film for the ages, and it's so controversial because of A.Laurents' screenplay, a thorough critique of the Romanov Dynasty and monarchy in general in 1956 when everybody was running from McCarthy.

Ingrid Bergman is so superb, as is Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes.Waht can you say about the scenes between Ingrid and Brynner and Ingrid with
Helen Hayes? They are so brilliant! And the p[hotography, the use of CinemaScope!
Akim Tamiroff and Martita Hunt are marvellous too. However, this DVD has major flaws with respect to the transmission of sound. The music overwhelms everyone, and the voices are low and not understandable as aresult of many imbakances. There was the Fox Tape, not LBXd but clear and balanced. What the heck happened?
. Keep the LBX tapes from Fox Movie Channel and be content, or, if you can get the Chinese DVD import, get it, beautiful sound and color. This release is sad, to be sure, but the Fox Dvds are very bad, and need to be re -done some day by competent people, by people who love film.

Look at The Gang's All Here, for example, and other box sets from Fox, the Tyrone Power one..keep the old tapes. September 4, 2007

Colorized, Brilliant, Moving, Just Utterly First Class

This is such a beautiful film. The colorization is certainly a value-added, but nothing can be better than Yule Brenner and Ingred Birgman with a quiet love that comes to fruition.

I am an unabashed romantic, and this DVD is my top ten list.

Do NOT fall for the Meg Ryan version! That is animated pap. I love Meg Ryan but this (Yule Brenner and Ingred Bergman) is the only real thing).

This movie was a perfect evening in every sense of the word. August 4, 2007

RESTORATION AND EXTRAS MAKE IT GREAT..ER!!!!

It's already a great movie but the extras make it greater! Either before viewing or after watching the movie you have the chance to see the Biography channels story on the real Anastasia. I believe this gave me so much more satisfaction because I was able to learn and also to compare it to the fictional story that the movie was. I wont even waste space describing the actors performances except to say ..Magnificant!!!! May 19, 2007

To be or not be?

Absorbing drama of an amnesiac girl who may or may not be the daughter of Czar Nicholas II. The performances are so superb that you or anyone of us are immediately engaged with this tour de force acting. Anatole Livak directed his masterpiece with the talented complicity of Mrs. Ingrid Bergman in her second Academy Award as Best Actress. Kudos for You Brynner who was extraordinary too.
April 10, 2007

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