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- Anastasia is a 1997 American animated film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman at Fox Animation Studios. The film was released on November 21, 1997 by 20th Century Fox. The idea for the film originates from Fox's 1956 live-action film version of the same name.[1] The plot is loosely based on an urban legend which claimed that Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last monarch of imperial Russia, in fact survived the execution of her family, and thus takes various liberties with historical fact
Plot
At the Romanov tercentennial ball in 1916, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna gives the eight-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia a music box and a necklace reading “Together in Paris” that serves as its key in the hopes that they will ease her favourite granddaughter’s loneliness while she is away in Paris. The ball is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Rasputin, a power-mad sorcerer who was banished from the palace by the Tsar, Anastasia's father. He casts a curse on the Imperial family that sparks the Russian Revolution as revenge. The Romanovs are forced to flee from the palace for their lives, but only Marie and Anastasia are able to escape the siege alive thanks to a young servant boy named Dimitri, who shows them a secret passageway in Anastasia’s room. Bartok immediately alerts Rasputin to Anastasia’s escape, and Rasputin confronts Marie and Anastasia on their way to the train station only to fall through the ice and drown. At the train station, however, Anastasia fails to board the moving train and becomes separated from Marie after she falls and hits her head on the railroad.
In 1926, Marie is offering a monetary reward for the safe return of her granddaughter. Dimitri, now a con man, and his partner Vladimir are searching for an Anastasia lookalike to present to Marie so that they can collect the reward and end their financial troubles. Elsewhere, the eighteen-year-old Anastasia, suffering from amnesia because of her head injury ten years prior, thinks that she is Anya the orphan, who leaves her orphanage after a woman there secures her a job. Anya turns down a fish factory job in favour of going to St. Petersburg after her necklace inspires her to seek out her family in Paris. Accompanied by a stray puppy named Pooka, she encounters Dimitri and Vladimir, who are impressed by her resemblance to the Grand Duchess and recruit her as their unwitting “fake” Anastasia. Rasputin’s minion Bartok realizes that the two con men’s “fake” Anastasia is, in fact, the real Anastasia when Rasputin’s dormant reliquary is revived. The reliquary hauls Bartok to limbo, where Rasputin has existed as a living corpse for the past ten years. When Bartok returns the reliquary to Rasputin, Rasputin’s powers are restored, and he sets out to kill Anastasia.
After two narrow escapes from Rasputin's wrath, Anastasia, Dimitri, and Vladimir arrive in Paris to present Anastasia to Marie. Marie, however, has recently called off the search for Anastasia. Nonetheless, Sophie, Marie's first cousin and lady-in-waiting, agrees to interview Anastasia as a favor to Vladimir. When Anastasia dimly recalls Dimitri opening the secret passageway, Dimitri realizes that he and Vladimir have found the missing Grand Duchess. Sophie then arranges for Anastasia to meet Marie after the Russian Ballet, but Marie continues to stand firm on her decision until Dimitri convinces her to see Anastasia after presenting her with the music box that Anastasia had left behind during the siege of the palace. Marie remains guarded upon meeting Anastasia until Anastasia begins to remember personal childhood moments, and when Anastasia uses her necklace to wind the music box and recites the lullaby, the two women realize the truth and are reunited at long last.
Marie rewards Dimitri with ten million rubles and her gratitude. Dimitri, however, refuses the money and makes preparations to return to Soviet Russia because even though he loves Anastasia, his social class forces him to part ways with the Grand Duchess. Later, at a celebratory ball being held in Anastasia’s honour, Marie informs Anastasia of Dimitri’s actions, and promises her granddaughter that they will always have each other even if Anastasia chooses a life with Dimitri. When Pooka suddenly bounds for the garden maze, Anastasia runs after him and is trapped by Rasputin, who tries to kill her on the Pont Alexandre III. Dimitri returns to save her, but is injured and knocked unconscious. In the end, Anastasia manages to destroy Rasputin's reliquary by crushing it under her foot, which causes him to disintegrate into dust, his soul awaiting eternal damnation with his hunger for revenge unfulfilled. Afterwards, Dimitri and Anastasia reconcile and send a farewell letter to Marie and Sophie. The newly eloped couple promises Marie and Sophie that they will see them again in Paris, and Anastasia and Dimitri sail away on a boat with Pooka.
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