The famous one was at least good and well done, despite its horrible historical inaccuracies.
But there are 2 more out there, I don't have the details other than "Anastasia" but I have seen them both. One is 'funny' bad, the other is 'bad' bad as in so bad it's not even funny.
The 'better' one is the one where they have a wounded Anastasia to the home of an elderly peasant couple. A boy and his father come to her aid, and somehow, out of nowhere, Pierre Gilliard! Well the old woman turns up mean. She tells her husband "Boris I do not like you, I never did, I leave you, I go join Bolsheviks!" which is funny when you see it. He says, "some men are born happy and free, and some become that way" and does a little dance! Then she goes over to the reds, and they treat her badly! But anyway, back to Anastasia. Gilliard and the boy and his father try hard to help her escape. They are pursued by bumbling Bolsheviks (at least they are called that in this one, they don't villainize poor Rasputin!) and make a mad rush for the "Austrian" border. Just as they get there, the old man jumps out of a train and helps them! Then they inform the Bolsheviks that they are now in "Austria" (not bordering Russia, I know, and even after the war the empire wouldn't either) and they have no power! So the mean, dangerous Bolsheviks basically go 'oh shucks' and turn back! It was ridiculous!
In the second one, it is cheesy beyond words. I will try to only hit on basic parts of the story where there was a story instead of below average songs and annoying talking bird characters who take up way too much time. Anastasia meets a soldier while helping in the hospital, and later, he is with the Whites and sees the family about to be killed. He beats a Bolshevik over the head and changes clothes with him! (old ploy!) But he gets in too late to save the family. You see bundles being loaded on the back of a truck. But Anastasia is moaning! So he takes her into the forest and nurses her back to health. They have a child, but she has lost her memory. At the end, they return to the murder house, and her memory returns. Oh, and this soldier's name is Alexander Tchaikovsky(sp) though no mention is made of anything else related to the Anna Anderson story. Oh, and Rasputin plays a very big evil part in this. They actually show him curing Alexei at one point, but later, he leads the revolution (complete with songs as he marches!) and declares himself Tsar, pushing a Nicholas statue off a pedestal and standing on it himself! Bad stuff!
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
