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Years ago, I initially thought that the 1956 film was the first Anastasia movie. I was wrong.

The first depiction of Anastasia surviving was a #silentfilm in 1928 called "Clothes Make The Woman," just 10 years after the Romanov's were murdered.

The American motion picture starred Eve Southern as Princess Anastasia and Walter Pidgeon as Victor Trent. It was directed by Tom Terriss.

"In 1928, just a decade after the murders, American director Tom Terriss created the first movie about Franziska Schanzkowska, aka Anna Anderson, who is probably the most infamous woman pretending to be Anastasia. This is a romantic movie about a fictional communist revolutionary, Victor, who saves Anastasia from execution. Several years later when Victor is working as a film director in Hollywood, he recognizes Anastasia, who is trying to become an actress. Victor decides to make a movie about her life, with the two of them playing the lead roles. Finally, they get married."

The second Anastasia film was a silent picture that was more loosely based on Anna Anderson.

"This second movie about Anna Anderson was also shot in 1928, but by German director Arthur Bergen. Starving in Berlin in the early 1920s, Anastasia is hired as an extra in a film company that's making the movie, Anastasia. The film's team is looking for the true Anastasia, so they show some women including the main heroine to Grand Duke Mikhail in Berlin. He doesn't recognize any of them, but Anastasia meets a White Guard officer, Lt. Volkov, who is performing in a variety show in Berlin. He arranges Anastasia to meet with her royal aunt. Finally, "Anastasia" and Volkov stay together, and she gives up the battle to be recognized as the Tsar's dauahter"

I wish there was somewhere I could watch these older movies.

Two Anastasia films were released in 1956. One is the Oscar winning motion picture and the other was a remake of the 1928 silent film. Die Falsche Zarentochter (the Last Czar's Daughter) premiered in 1956 in Germany.

This film starred Lilli Palmer as Anna Anderson and Ivan Desny as Gleb Botkin. It was directed by Falk Harnack.

Source:

Russian Beyond

https://www.rbth.com/arts/326801-5-films-fake-anastasia-romanov

Fabricating Anastasia Romanov: 5 popular films about Russia's most infamous historical impostor

Exactly two decades ago 20th Century Fox’s animation studio premiered Anastasia, a tragic but glorious fairy tale about the fate of the youn

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Rings of Fear (Enigma rosso) (1978) Alberto Negrin

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Ivan Desny-Lilli Palmer "Anastasia: la última hija del zar" (Anastasia-die letzte zarentochter) 1956, de Falk Harnack.

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anastasia, die letzte zarentochter, falk harnack 1956

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Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1979

Hanna Schygulla, Ivan Desny

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Ivan Desny-Lucía Bosé "La señora sin camelias" (La signora senze camelie) 1953, de Michelangelo Antonioni.

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anastasia, die letzte zarentochter, falk harnack 1956