Anastasia is a 1956 American period drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Arthur Laurents. Set in interwar France, the film follows a plot related to rumors that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, survived the execution of her family in 1918. Ingrid Bergman as Anastasia (for which she received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Actress) Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Sacha Pitoëff and Akim