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royal family? That is the question p.o.v,. advanced for its time, but
when Anya (Nadja Hoenig) turns not sensational enough for today’s
up mysteriously in Berlin where taste. Haberman is courageous.
Frau Teufel (Ilsa Pilvonka in a star She had one chance to direct in
turn) tries to exploit her suspicions a film industry collapsing under
about Anya’s identity. Berlin itself Hitler. Film is a conduit of anxiety
is a character on screen in sets, in a context of history that swept
lighting, and cinematography. The women and men into anonymity.
American reporter, John Wilson By the end, pic gives creditable un-
(Hannes Mueller), asks all the right derstanding of German film visuals
and wrong questions. The plot is reinterpreted by nearly all-distaff
standard girl-meets-boy except that writer, director, crew and as much
Hab erman wisely directs her Anya insight into female identity fears
towards the door like Ibsen’s Nora. as contempo movies-of-the-week.
Film is no “A Doll’s House,” but –Renalda Becker
piques interest because of female

The Russian Imperial Family: Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra with
their four daughters and son. Anastasia is on the right.–German postcard,
1913.

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