Anastasia (1997)

Watch an enchanting animated musical film produced by Fox Animation Studios, based on the Play by Marcelle Maurette as adapted by Guy Bolton The screenplay by Arthur Laurents; You'll find gorgeous pictures of characters and full quotes

Watch Anastasia goes to Saint Petersburg

Watch Anastasia goes to Saint Petersburg

ANASTASIA: I do have a clue to... PHLEGMENKOFF: I know. "Together in Paris." So, you want to go to France to find your family? Little Miss Anya, it's time to take your place in life...

Watch Anastasia rise again

VLADIMIR: The same blue eyes. DIMITRI: The Romanov eyes. VLADIMIR: Nicholas' smile. DIMITRI: Alexandra's chin. VLADIMIR: Oh, look. She even has the grandmother's hands. DIMITRI: She's the same age, the same physical type. ANASTASIA: Are you trying to tell me you think that I am Anastasia?

Watch Something fine than train

ANASTASIA: Thank goodness it's you. Please, remove him from my sight. VLADIMIR: What have you done to her? DIMITRI: Me? It's her. VLADIMIR: An unspoken attraction.

Watch Ready to become the Grand Duchess Anastasia

ANASTASIA: I'm feeling a little dizzy. DIMITRI: Kind of light-headed? ANASTASIA: Yeah. DIMITRI: Me too. Probably from spinning. Maybe we should stop. ANASTASIA: We have stopped. DIMITRI: Anya, I...

Watch Claiming to be Anastasia

SOPHIE: Oh, my heavens. She certainly does look like Anastasia. But so did many of the others. Where were you born? ANASTASIA: At the Peterhoff Palace. SOPHIE: Correct. And how does Anastasia like her tea? ANASTASIA: I don't like tea. Just hot water and lemon.

Watch Anastasia found her family

DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: It was our secret. My Anastasia's and mine. ANASTASIA: The music box. To sing me to sleep when you were in Paris. Hear this song and remember, soon you'll be, home with me, once upon a December.

Watch Anastasia Imperial Highness

DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Knowing that you are alive, seeing the woman you have become, brings me joy I never thought I could feel again. Whatever you choose, we will always have each other.

Watch songs from original Anastasia soundtrack

	Rumor in St. Petersburg		Journey to the Past

	Once Upon a December		In the Dark of the Night

	Learn to Do It		Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)

Pictures of characters

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Anya), the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II		Dimitri, a handsome and smart young man who saves Anastasia in many ways

Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, the mother of Nicholas II and Anastasia's grandmother		Tsar Nicholas II, the last Russian Emperor and Anastasia's father

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a dangerous and power-mad fraud		Bartok, Rasputin's bumbling bat sidekick

Sophie Stanislovskievna Somorkov-Smirnoff, Marie's first cousin and lady-in-waiting		Vladimir Vanya Voinitsky Vasilovich, a former nobleman

Phlegmenkoff, the orphanage's inconsiderate owner		Pooka, Anastasia's sweet and cute puppy pet

Full Quotes

SERVANT: Your Highness... DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916 and my son Nicholas was the Tzar of Imperial Russia. Hello, darling. We were celebrating the 300th anniversary of our family's rule. And, that night, no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Anastasia, my youngest granddaughter. She begged me not to return to Paris, so I had a very special gift made for her to make the separation easier for both of us. YOUNG ANASTASIA: For me? Is it a jewellery box? SERVANT: Dimitri. You belong in the kitchen. YOUNG ANASTASIA: Look. It plays our lullaby. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: You can play it at night before you go to sleep and pretend that it's me singing. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE (singing): On the wind across the sea, Hear this song and remember DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE and YOUNG ANASTASIA (singing): Soon you'll be home with me, Once upon a December. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Read what it says. YOUNG ANASTASIA: "Together in Paris." Really? Oh, Grandmamma. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: But we would never be together in Paris, for a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Romanovs. His name was Rasputin. We thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud, power-mad and dangerous. TZAR NICHOLAS: How dare you return to the palace? RASPUTIN: But I am your confidant. TZAR NICHOLAS: Confidant? Hah! You are a traitor. Get out! RASPUTIN: You think you can banish the great Rasputin? By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you with a curse. Mark my words. You and your family will die within the fortnight. I will not rest until I see the end

of the Romanov line for ever! DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Consumed by his hatred for Nicholas and his family, Rasputin sold his soul for the power to destroy them. RASPUTIN: Go. Fulfill your dark purpose and seal the fate of the Tzar and his family once and for all. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: From that moment on, the spark of unhappiness in our country was fanned into a flame that would soon destroy our lives for ever. YOUNG ANASTASIA: Help! TZAR NICHOLAS: Hurry, children. YOUNG ANASTASIA: My music box. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Anastasia! Come back! Come back! Anastasia... Please, hurry. YOUNG DIMITRI: Come this way. Out the servants' quarters. Hurry, Anastasia. DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Rasputin, she's getting away. YOUNG ANASTASIA: My music box. YOUNG DIMITRI: Go! Go! REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER: Comrades, in here! Where are they, boy? YOUNG ANASTASIA: Grandmamma... DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Keep up with me, darling. Rasputin! YOUNG ANASTASIA: Let me go. Please! RASPUTIN: You'll never escape me, child. Never! Bartok! BARTOK: Master! DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Anastasia, hurry. Hurry. YOUNG ANASTASIA: Grandmamma! DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Here, take my hand. Hold onto my hand. YOUNG ANASTASIA: Don't let go! DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: Anastasia. Anastasia! DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE: So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was now gone for ever. And my Anastasia, my beloved grandchild, I never saw her again. VLADIMIR: Well, Dimitri, I got us a theatre. DIMITRI: Everything's going according to plan. All we need is the girl. Just think, Vlad, no more forging papers, no more stolen goods. We'll have three tickets out of here: One for you, one for me and one for Anastasia.

Every lonely girl would hope she's a princess

I accept your gratitude Your Highness

I had to prove I was the Grand Duchess

I belong to a family

I have found her granddaughter

Young man who found a music box

Production

Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman; screenplay by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White; animation adaptation by Eric Tuchman based on Anastasia by Arthur Laurents and Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette; music by David Newman; edited by Bob Bender, Fiona Trayler.

The movie received nominations for several awards, including for Best Original Song ("Journey to the Past" - lost to My Heart Will Go On from James Cameron's Titanic) and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score at the 70th Academy Awards.

Trivia

20th Century Fox scheduled for Anastasia to be released on November 21, 1997, notably a week after the 1997 re-release of Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989). Disney claimed it had long-planned for the 17-day re-release to coincide with a consumer products campaign leading into Christmas.

The worldwide gross totaled up to about $139.8 million, making it Don Bluth's highest-grossing film to date and beating out his next highest-grossing film, An American Tail (1986), by about $55 million. This was Don Bluth's first financially successful film since All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989).