The Story of Anastasia

The Story of Anastasia and in the UK, Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?, is a German film directed by Falk Harnack. The 1956 film is based on the true story of Anna Anderson, who was pulled from the Landwehr Canal in Berlin in 1920 and later claimed to be Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The entire family was executed in the Bolshevik Revolution, but this was not confirmed until their graves were discovered in 1991 and 2007.