Listening Log-7; Anastasia

AnastasiaGenre: Animation; RomanceTime: 93min

Anastasia is about one girl who was royal family member in Russia. Her name is Anastasia who was a last daughter of Russian emperor; Tsar Nicholas 2. The story is started at 1916. In 1916 Tsar Nicholas 2 hosts a party at his Palace to celebrate the Romanov holiday. His mother, queen Marie is visiting from Paris, and gives a music box and a necklace “Together in Paris” as parting gifts to her eight-year-old granddaughter, Anastasia. However, the evil sorcerer Rasputin interrupts party. He wants to destroy and kill every Romanov family. Only Marie and Anastasia are able to escape because a young servant boy named Dmitri shows them a secret passageway in Anastasia's room. Rasputin confronts the two royals outside. They reach a moving train, but only Marie can climb aboard while Anastasia falls and is hitting her head on the platform. 


The story restarts at 10 years later. Russia is under communist rule, and Marie has offered 10 million rubles for the return of Anastasia; her granddaughter. Dmitri who is now a conman and his friend and partner Vladimir thus search for a fake Anastasia to present to Marie in Paris and get the reward. Elsewhere, Anastasia, now became "Anya," leaves the orphanage where she grew up. She has lost her memory after arriving there. She change her way from St. Petersburg to Paris after her necklace inspires her to seek out her family in Paris. Dmitri and his partner meet Anya and they decide to take her with them. 


Anya and Dmitri eventually reach Paris and go to meet Marie, but Anya must be answered at quiz from Marie's first cousin, Sophie, to approve her identity. Dmitri told Anya all the answers, but when Anya independently how young Dmitri saved her ten years ago, he finally realizes that she is the real Anastasia. Dmitri, having fallen in love with Anya, manages to change Marie's mind by showing her Anastasia's music box, which he had found after their escape. Anya's memory returns upon meeting Marie, and after using her necklace to wind the music box and singing the lullaby it plays, the two women are reunited at long last.


That night, at Anastasia's return celebration, Marie informs her Dmitri will leave her and tells her about his love. Anastasia wanders through a garden and onto the Pont, where she is trapped and attacked by Rasputin. Dmitri returns to save her, but he is injured and knocked unconscious. Anastasia manages to kill Rasputin by crushing the reliquary under her foot. With Rasputin's soul having been tied to the object, he turns to dust at the last.

Afterwards, Dmitri and Anastasia check each other’s love and then, Anastasia sends a farewell letter to Marie with promising to return someday. The story ends with the couple sharing a kiss at Paris.