This movie is weird. As a child watching this I thought it was epic and amazing (in that way that you do when you're a kid watching an animated film) but even now I can kind of see where little mini-me was coming from. The story is still good but it is very much a fairy tale, and wishful thinking as to what actually happened to the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. They give the reason for the downfall of the Romanovs and the rise of Communism as basically: Rasputin was an evil wizard who turned the Russian people against the royal family. Also they show the family escaping on a train (except for Anastasia) but then, mysteriously, only the matriarch of the family has survived years later and is living in Paris. No real discussion about the rest of the czar's family, or where they ended up. Also, the plot to present a young woman as the princess to her grandmother was real. Several people claimed to be Romanovs but the most successful (notorious) Anastasia impostor was Anna Anderson. Honestly the whole story is really interesting but it's only gotten a very sanitized cartoon version and the 1950's (also sanitized) film with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.
The Proletariat.
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