Anastasia

Anastasia (1956) is a classic Hollywood drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Ingrid Bergman alongside Yul Brynner. Bergman took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role — her first Oscar and the film that marked her full return to American cinema after years abroad.

Paris, the 1920s. General Bounin leads a circle of Russian exiles who have hatched a scheme: coach a destitute, unstable young woman to pass as the tsar's youngest daughter, convince the Dowager Empress Maria — played by Helen Hayes — and collect ten million pounds sitting in a London bank. They find a woman who fits. She is convincing. Frighteningly convincing. Bounin starts to wonder whether they found an impostor or something else entirely.

Bergman plays a woman who genuinely does not know who she is, and that uncertainty is what lifts the film above a simple historical intrigue. Stream Anastasia (1956) online on iFILM.