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Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy drama film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White. The film stars the voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, and Angela Lansbury. Based on the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and set in an alternate version of 1926, the film follows an eighteen-year-old girl, orphaned amnesiac Anastasia "Anya" Romanov who, hoping to find some trace of her deceased family, sides with two con men who wish to pass her off as the Grand Duchess to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. The film shares its plot with the 1956 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1954 play of the same name by Marcelle Maurette. Unlike those treatments, this version adds a magically-empowered Grigori Rasputin as the antagonist.

Plot

The film begins with a narration from the Dowager Empress Maria: in 1916, Petrograd, Russia, at a ball celebrating the Romanov tricentennial, she bestows a music box and as well as a necklace inscribed with the words "Together in Paris" to her youngest granddaughter, the eight-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, as parting gifts. The ball is suddenly interrupted by Grigori Rasputin, a sorcerer and former royal advisor exiled for treason, who vows to Tsar Nicholas that his family would be banished with a curse. Consumed by his hatred for the Romanovs, he sells his soul in exchange for an unholy reliquary, for which he uses to spark the Russian Revolution. As the angry revolutionaries besiege the palace, Marie and Anastasia manage to escape through a secret passageway, aided by a 10-year-old servant boy, Dimitri. Rasputin confronts the two outside on the frozen Little Nevka River, only to fall through the ice and drown. The pair reach a moving train, but as Marie climbs aboard, Anastasia falls and hits her head on the platform, subsequently suffering amnesia, and is separated from her grandmother. Marie then ends her narration, stating that she never saw Anastasia again.

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