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What year is it when Anna Anderson (anasatsia) goes to America? It's all very confusing.
shareAnna Anderson arrived in the U.S. in 1928. It's been a while since I've seen Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, so I can't recall whether its heavily fictionalized screenplay contradicts that historical date.
"Please! You're not at home!"
DryToast- it probably does, though the movie was so made-up that I didn't even get that far.
"Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."
-Duck Soup
It's not fictionalized, it's actually based on Peter Kurth's famous book. He interviewed Anna Anderson and then wrote this book on her life.
Also a very fascinating read: "The Resurrection of the Romanovs" by Greg King & Penny Wilson. It follows Anna Anderson's entire life, trips to the US included and her decades long trial in Germany until her death.
waldenpond88, I know Kurth's book very well, and this TV movie uses absolutely nothing from it that distinguishes it from any thumbnail account of the story and in addition invents major characters and incidents that are not in the book and never happened, including a love story with a fictional character. I cannot imagine how you can have done any reading on the subject and still claim that this TV movie is not fictionalized, regardless of what nominal credit is given to the source. The book is terrific, the TV movie is "a nonsense, throw it on the fire" (as Anna Anderson once said).
"Oh look, the neighbors are recording us."
Indeed! I've read Kurth's book several times and agree completely with your assessment of the movie. The "love story with a fictional character" was especially grating.
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