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Anastasia is an animated feature created at Fox Animation Studios , produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman , and released on November 21, 1997 by Twentieth Century Fox. A musical in the vein of then-popular Disney animated features, the film features songs by Stephen Flaherty and David Newman. A fairy-tale style adaptation of the legend of the Russian grand dutchess Anastasia, the plot of the film imagines that Anastasia, daughter of the last Russian Tsar, survives the slaughter of the Imperial family, loses her memory, battles the ghost of the evil monk Rasputin and his sidekick Bartok, a singing fruit bat, convinces her grandmother of her true identity, and falls in love with the kitchen boy who helped her survive. The film is notable for being one of Bluth's most critically aclaimed works, and for being one of the few animated features produced in the widescreen CinemaScope process.

The movie features the voices of Meg Ryan as Anastasia, John Cusack as Dimitri, Kelsey GrammerFrasier Crane on Frasier''. Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 20, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer. Personal life and professional career Grammer, who came to public attention in the classic TV sitcom Cheers was able to successfully spin as Vladimir, Christopher LloydChristopher Lloyd (born on October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American actor. His first major motion picture was a role as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''. He will be most remembered for his roles on the TV sitcom as Rasputin, Hank AzariaHank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American actor who is best known for providing the voices of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Cletus and Professor Frink on the animated television show The Sim as Bartok, Bernadette PetersBernadette Peters is the stage name of Bernadette Lazarra (born February 28, 1948 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York), an actress and singer. Her outstanding characteristics are her flawless complexion, bee-stung lips, kewpie-doll voice, and gift for light c as Sophie, Kirsten DunstKirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress/ singer born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. She began her career at the age of three appearing in television commercials. She also appeared as an extra on one episode of NBC's Saturday Ni as the young Anastasia, Angela LansburyAngela Lansbury (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born American actress and the granddaughter of politician George Lansbury. Murder, She Wrote''. She made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944, in the Charles Boyer/ Ingrid Bergman film Gasligh as Dowager Empress MariePrincess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar ( November 26, 1847 October 13, 1928), who was known as Maria Fyodorovna (in Russian )after her marriage to Tsar Alexander III was the mother of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov Dynasty. She was bapt, Rick Jones as Tzar Nicholas II, Liz Callaway , and Andrea Martin.

Anastasia was nominated for two Academy Awards in the categories of " Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score" and " Best Music, Original Song" for "Journey to the Past."

Fictionalization of historic events

While it may seem uncourteous to cavil at inaccuracies in a fictional film in which a bat can sing, the movie did inspire some controversy as many history teachers quailed at the prospect of having to correct the misimpressions of a generation of students educated only by its tutelage, and several Orthodox Christians were offended due to the historical Anastasia's sainthood (declared formally the next year).

Some of the differences with actual history are recorded here:

Though the body of two members of the Russian Imperial Family, including one of the daughters, have not been found, there is no evidence that any family members, including Anastasia, survived.

In the film, a curse from Rasputin brings about the Russian Revolution. In actuality, it was Russia's dismal performance in World War I that caused the Revolution, and Rasputin was a religious pilgrim and friend to the royal family.

The film depicts Anastasia as escaping from the Imperial Palace during the Revolution, when in fact she stayed with her family, living at first in Tsarskoe Selo and later in Tobolsk in Siberia until they were executed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg more than a year after the Revolution.

In the film, Anastasia is only a young child at the time of the Revolution, when in fact, she was nearly 16.

The Dowager Empress did not live in Paris, either before or after the Revolution. She lived in Russia until 1920, when she evacuated the Crimea with White forces, and thereafter in her native Denmark.

At the times the story takes place, St. Petersburg was known as Petrograd or Leningrad, not St. Petersburg, as it is called in the movie.

Bluth and Goldman, who did extensive historical research on the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia and the Russian Revolution for the film, never intended for their film to be scrupulously analyzed for historical accuracy; their film is based upon the (fictional) legend of Anastasia having survived the slaugther of the family. A disclaimer can be found at the end of the credits for the film. It reads as follows:

"While some of the characters and events depicted in this film were inspired by well-known historical figures and events, the portrayal of such characters and the depiction of such events are fictional. All other characters and incidents protrayed and names used were created for the purpose of fictitious dramatization and any similarity to the names, characters, and history of actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintentional."

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