Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It was the first feature film to be released by Fox Animation Studios.
The idea for the film originates from Fox's 1956 live-action film version of the same name. 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.
In 1916, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, the mother of Tsar Nicholas II, attends the Romanov centennial celebration and gives her eight-year-old granddaughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, a music box and a necklace reading “Together in Paris” to ease Anastasia's loneliness while she is away in Paris. The ball is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Grigori Rasputin, a power-mad sorcerer who was banished from the palace by the Tsar. Rasputin sells his soul in order to cast a curse on the Imperial family that sparks a revolution as revenge.
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