Kenneth Macmillan's Anastasia (DVD)

Opening
Prelude: The distorting mirror of memory, time and place (1. Akt)
On board the imperial yacht, August 1914
Anastasia, the Tsar's youngest daughter, joins her three sisters on deck
Anastasia dances with the officers
Others join the dance
Three officers jump into the sea to take a swim
Rasputin with the imperial family
Anastasia's solo
Anastasia and the Tsarina
The women of the imperial court dance
Alexey falls and Rasputin demonstrates his healing powers
The Tsar and Tsarina take Alexey below deck
The three officers return from their swim
Anastasia and her sister Olga lead a dance
The Tsar is handed news of the outbreak of war
The ballroom at the imperial palace (2. Akt)
Anastasia is presented to society
The Tsar's favourite ballerina and her partner dance for the guests
Anastasia is haunted by the ghost of Rasputin
Anastasia is puzzled by the relationships at court
The revolutionaries prepare
The ball is interrupted by the revolution
Past and present intermingle (3. Akt)
Anna Anderson's identity is questioned: is she Anastasia?
Does she imagine or remember her family and the court?
Pas de deux: Anna and her husband
Memories and imagination become ever more frenzied
With Olga; Rasputin interrupts
With her husband; again Rasputin interrupts
She remembers her child
Nurses dispose of the childs body
Anna is comforted by her husband
She exorcizes Rasputin's power over her
Anna Anderson triumphantly alone with the ghosts of the past
Applause and courtain calls
Credits