The film tells the story of a woman from an asylum who appears in Paris in 1928 and is captured by several Russian émigrés who feed her information so that they can fool Anastasia 's grandmother into thinking Anderson is her granddaughter in an attempt to obtain a Tsarist fortune .
The movie is about a woman from an asylum who came to Paris in 1928 and was captured by some Russian émigrés who use her so that they can fool Anastasia 's grandmother into thinking Anderson actually is her granddaughter . This is because they want to get a Tsarist fortune .