The Story of Anastasia and in the UK, Is Anna Anderson Anastasia? (German: Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter), is a German film directed by Falk Harnack. The 1956 film is based on the true story of Anna Anderson, who was pulled from the Landwehr Canal in Berlin in 1920 and later claimed to be Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The entire family was executed in the Bolshevik Revolution, but this was not confirmed until their graves were discovered in 1991 and 2007.
The American film Anastasia, directed by Anatole Litvak and featuring Ingrid Bergman appeared the same year. Both films feature actor Ivan Desny.
Cast
Lilli Palmer as Anna Anderson / Anastasia
Ivan Desny as Gleb Botkin
Rudolf Fernau as Serge Botkin
Tilla Durieux as the Tsar's mother
Dorothea Wieck as Grand Duchess Olga Romanov
Ellen Schwiers as Princess Katharina (Xenia Leeds)
Käthe Braun as Frau von Rathleff-Keilmann
Margot Hielscher as Crown Princess Cecilie
Otto Graf as Duke of Leuchtenberg
Franziska Kinz as Duchess of Leuchtenberg
Hans Krull as Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Saxon-Altenburg
Adelheid Seeck as Princess Irene of Prussia
Fritz Tillmann as Baron von Pleskau
Alice Treff as Baroness von Seekendorf
Erik von Loewis as Baron Valepp
Susanne von Almassy as Frau Stevens
Eva Bubat as Gertrud Schanzkowsky
Berta Drews as Fräulein Peuthert
Maria Sebaldt as Trollop
Reinhold Bernt as Landpoliceman
Paul Bildt as Volkov
Emmy Burg as Nurse Schwarzkopf
Peter Carsten as Soldier Tchaikovski
Erika Dannhoff as Frau von Pleskau
Fritz Eberth as Yurovski
Kurt Heintel as Kotov
Lucie Höflich as Frau Bäumle
Karl Klüsner as Dr. Kersten
Reinhard Kolldehoff as Fichte
Stanislav Ledinek as Voroneff
Robert Meyn as German lawyer
Marina Ried as Doris Wingender
Traute Rose as Charwoman
Edgar Ott as Ranger
Peter Capell
Wolf Martini
Werner Peters
Wolfgang Preiss
Charles Regnier
Helmuth Rudolph
Ernst Schröder
Siegfried Schürenberg
Paul Wagner
Kurt Weitkamp
Dieter Zeidler