The girl?


First of all I can't believe this is the first post for this movie!

Anyway, what do you think of Eva, the girl? Do you think she was the conscience of Yurovsky/Timofev (spelling?????) or just a coincidence coinciding with the deaths of the Romanovs he had put his guilt into, somehow thinking it was his fault. Or was it really his fault?

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent

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Those are all good theories. I've also heard that the movie might have been playing into the survivor theory that Anastasia had been switched with another girl in the days before execution, and that the missing girl was actually killed in place of Anastasia.

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Those are all good theories. I've also heard that the movie might have been playing into the survivor theory that Anastasia had been switched with another girl in the days before execution, and that the missing girl was actually killed in place of Anastasia.

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Anastasia had been switched with another girl in the days before execution, and that the missing girl was actually killed in place of Anastasia


That's an interesting theory. But I understood that the missing girl was a little girl, while all of the tsar's daughters were young ladies. So they could not have exchanged one of the daughters for the girl.

I did some reading about the execution, and learned that the the movie recreated all the actual details of the execution quite precisely. However, I did not find anything about a girl being missing at that same time, near the same house. I wonder if the missing girl was an actual historical detail or was it just an artistic imagination?

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I can't remember anyone in the film saying that the missing girl was a little girl. I agree with the theory that the girl may have been switched with Anastasia. I can remember for years someone claimed to be her.

There are clues to this in the movie. They make a point of saying that Anastacia was only wounded in the shooting so they finished her off with bayonets. Apparently done by someone else, not Yurovsky, as he seems to indicate on his death bed.

Yurovsky only really feels guilt over the missing girl as she shouldn't have really been a part of it. So much so that even on his death bed he wants to make sure people know that he didn't kill her. He doesn't feel guilt over the deaths of the Tsar and his family as he was only obeying orders (as he says in the movie.)

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