Anastasia (1997 film)

***Anastasia*** is a 1997 American animated musical drama film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman in association with Fox Animation Studios, distributed by 20th Century Fox, and starring the voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Hank Azaria, Christopher Lloyd, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, and Angela Lansbury. The film is a loose adaptation of the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, which claims that she escaped the execution of her family. Thus the film shares its plot with Fox's prior film from 1956, which, in turn, was based on the 1954 play of the same name by Marcelle Maurette.

Though it enjoyed a positive reception from many critics and audiences by praising the animation, themes, characters, voice performances, and the soundtrack, the film was met with criticism by some historians for its fantastical retelling of the life of the Grand Duchess. From a $50 million budget, *Anastasia* grossed over $139 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film from Bluth and Fox Animation Studios. It received nominations for several awards, including for Best Original Song ("Journey to the Past") and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score at the 70th Academy Awards.

## English

Release date:

* November 14, 1997 (New York City, New York )
* November 21, 1997 (USA)
* December 5, 1997 (UK)

### Additional voices:

* Rick Jones
* Andrea Martin
* Arthur Malet
* Charity James

### Singers:

Choir:

* Ellen Bernfeld
* Judith Blazer
* Jeff Blumenkrantz
* Ted Brunetti
* Glen Burtnick
* Vivian Cherry
* Robin Clark
* Victoria Clark
* Madeline Doherty
* Robert DuSold
* Gregg Edelman
* Al Fritsch
* Kyle Gordon
* Darius de Haas
* Jan Horvath
* John Jellison
* Kenny Karen
* Curtis King Jr.
* Joseph Kolinski
* Alix Korey
* David Lowenstein
* Cindy Mizelle
* Bill Nolte
* Michele Pawk
* Billy Porter
* Patrick Quinn
* Karen Silver
* J.K. Simmons
* Emily Skinner
* Ted Sperling
* Vanéese Y. Thomas
* Lillias White

### Other Info:

* **Liz Callaway** was called at the last minute by Vocalist Stephen Flaherty and Lyricist Lynn Ahrens to substitute for a singer who couldn't make the recording session of the temp tracks for Twentieth Century Fox. Her tracks of the songs were liked so much, they led to her subsequent casting as the singing voice of Anastasia.
* Before **Meg Ryan** was cast, **Liz Callaway** was brought in to record several demos of the songs, hoping to land a job in background vocals, but were liked well enough by the songwriters, that they were ultimately used in the final movie.
* **Hank Azaria**, **Andrea Martin**, and **Kelsey Grammer** made Bartok the Magnificent (1999), only Azaria reprised his role as Bartok the bat. Whereas Andrea and Kelsey played two different characters
* **Kate Wintet, Jennifer Aniston, Winnoa Ryder and Nicole Kidman** were considered for the role of Anastasia.
* **Steve Martin** was considered for the role of Bartok.
* **Betty White** was considered for the role of the Empress Marie.
* **Peter O'Toole** was the studio's first choice to voice Grigori Rasputin, but due to the popularity of the Back to the Future trilogy. **Christopher Lloyd** was cast instead. O'Toole was also asked to play Grigori Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), which was about Anastasia's parents. But he turned down the role.
* **Hank Azaria** won the role for Bartok only ten minutes into his audition.
* **J.K. Simmons**' first time voice acting in a theatrical film.
* **Kathy Najimy, Kathleen Turner,** were considered for the role of Sophie.
* **John Lithgow, Gary Sinise** were considered for the role of Vladimir.
* **Gary Oldman William Hurt, Patrick Stewart**, **Ian McKellen,** **Jonathan Pryce**, and **Tim Curry** were considered for the role of Rasputin.
* **Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. Ewan McGregor** and **Ethan Hawke** were considered for the role of Dimitri.

## Albanian

Title: Anastasia

Release date: 2003 (Bootleg VHS/DVD)

Dubbing studio: Albatrade Video

Dubbing director: Alma Koleci

### Other Info:

* Only **Jetmir Metaj** was the singing voice of Dimitri in the song "Learn to Do It".

## Arabic

Title: آنستازيا

Release date: March 27, 1998

### Singers:

* حسين حلاق / Husein Hallaq
* نجاة سليمان / Najat Suleiman
* 'عايدة / 'Ayda
* حنان شقير / Hanan Shqeir
* لويس أبو عسلي / Louis Abu 'Asaly
* ​زياد الرفاعي / Ziad El-Rifa'i

## Arabic (TV Version)

Release date: 2010

 Empress Marie

## Brazilian Portuguese

Title: Anastasia

Release date: December 25, 1997

Dubbing studio:

* Delart, Rio de Janeiro
* Double Sound (songs)

Dubbing director: Pádua Moreira

Translator: Mário Menezes

Musical director: Marcelo Coutinho

Musical adapters:

* Marcelo Coutinho
* Renato Rosenberg

### Additional voices:

* Alfredo Martins
* Pádua Moreira
* Pietro Mário
* Selma Lopes

## Bulgarian

Title: Принцеса Анастасия

Release date: April 17, 1998

### Additional voices:

* Йорданка Илова / Yordanka Ilova
* Ася Рачева / Asya Racheva
* Лина Темелкова / Lina Temelkova
* Христо Мутафчиев / Hristo Mutafchiev
* Цанко Тасев / Tsanko Tasev
* Анатоли Божинов / Anatoly Bozhinov
* Тодор Янкулов / Todor Yankulov
* Асен Аврамов / Assen Avramov

## Canadian French

Title: Anastasia

Release date: November 21, 1997

## Castilian Spanish

Title: Anastasia

Release date: March 9, 1998

## Catalan

Title: Anastàsia

Release date: March 9, 1998

### Other Info:

* The Catalan and Castilian casts of the movie are the same. The only unknown point is wether **Xavier Ribera**also sang as Vladimir in the Catalan version, or if **Jesús Ferrer** did the singing parts as well.​

## Croatian

Title: Anastazija

Release date: April 2, 1998

## Czech (VHS)

Title: Anastázie

Release date: February 26, 1998

### Additional voices:

* Hana Talpová
* Alena Procházková
* Gustav Bubník
* Karel Richter
* Jaroslav Horák

## Czech (TV)

Title: Anastázie

Release date: 2006

### Additional voces:

* Renata Volfová
* Filip Altrichter
* Miluše Bittnerová
* Zdeněk Dolanský
* Radka Fidlerová
* Ivo Novák
* Timea Pražáková
* Karel Richter
* Nicholas Spousta
* Hana Šedová
* Marie Tučková
* Mikuláš Veselý
* Max Záruba

### Other Info:

* The songs from the first dubbing were use for this dubbing.

## Danish

Title: *Anastasia*

Release date: March 27, 1998

## Dutch

Title: Anastasia

Release date: February 12, 1998

### Other Info:

* **Karin Bloemen** also dubbed Sophie in the Flemish dubbing.

## European French

Title: Anastasia

Release date: February 4, 1998

### Additional voices:

* Rémy Kirch
* Pierre Baton
* Emmanuel Garijo
* Tamila Mesbah
* Clara Boras
* Richard Darbois
* Pierre Baton

### Singers:

Choir:

* Daniel Beretta
* Georges Costa
* Michel Costa
* Olivier Constantin
* Lucie Dolène
* Dominique Poulain
* Jean-Claude Briodin
* Jean Stout

### Other Info:

* **Kelly Marot** was only 12 years old when she dubbed Anastasia (young).
* **Katia Markosy** was only 19 years-old when she sang as Anastasia.​

## European Portuguese

Title: Anastasia

Release date: March 27, 1998

 Anastasia

## Finnish

Title: *Anastasia*

Release date: February 13, 1998

### Singers

Choir:

* Maija-Liisa Peuhu
* Rauno Ahonen
* Antti Pääkkönen
* Markus Bäckman
* Annamari Metsävainio

## Flemish

Title: Anastasia

Release date: February 18, 1998

 Anastasia (young)
 Anastasia

### Other Info:

* **Karin Bloemen** also dubbed Sophie in the Dutch dubbing.

## German

Title: Anastasia

Release date: April 2, 1998

### Additional voices:

* Karl-Heinz Grewe
* Klaus-Peter Hoppe
* Walter Tschernich
* Irmelin Krause
* Bernhard Vögler
* Gunnar Helm
* Helmut Heyne

## Greek

Title: Αναστασία

Release date: April 1998

## Hebrew

Title: אנסטסיה

Release date: April 3, 1998

### Additional voices:

* גיורא קנת / Giora Kenneth
* מיכה אוזין סליאן / Michael Morim
* יורם יוספסברג / Yoram Yosefsberg
* אורנה כץ / Orna Katz

### Other Info:

* **Anna Spitz** was only 9 years old when she dubed Anastasia (young).

## Hungarian

Title: Anasztázia

Release date: March 26, 1998

## Icelandic

Title: Anastasía

Release date: April 3, 1998

Dubbing studio: Stúdio Sýrland Skífan

Dubbing director: Þórhallur Sigurðsson

Translator: Jón Ólafsson

Lyricist: Ólafur Haukur Símonarson

### Other Info:

* **Baldur Trausti Hreinsson** (Dimitri's voice) had never acted before, it was his first dubbing work; he used to be the chief of the Police of an Icelandic town.

## Italian

Title: Anastasia

Release date: March 23, 1998

Dubbing studio:

* Royfilm S.r.l
* D.T.R.S. Roma

Dubbing assistant: Donatella Fantini

Dubbing director: Renzo Stacchi

Musical director: Ernesto Brancucci

Lyricist: Ernesto Brancucci

Translator: Andrea De Leonardis

### Additional voices:

* Gianni Vagliani
* Alberto Angrisano
* Gabriele Martini
* Flora Carosello
* Renzo Stacchi
* Nello Riviè
* Renata Biserni
* Francesco Caruso

## Japanese

Title: アナスタシア

Release date: September 5, 1998

## Korean

Title: 아나스타샤

Release date: December 20, 1997

 Anastasia

## Korean (TV)

Title: 아나스타샤

Release date: 2001

### Additional voices:

* 최옥희 / Ok-hee Choi
* 성창수 / Seong Chang-Soo
* 김정주 / Kim Jung Joo
* 오수경 / Oh Sookyung
* 원호섭 / Ho-Seop Won

### Other Info:

* The songs were left in English, and shown subtitled in this version.

## Latin Spanish

Title: Anastasia

Release date:

* Mexico - November 30, 1997 (premiere)

* Mexico & Colombia - December 12, 1997

* Venezuela - December 17, 1997
* Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Puerto Rico - December 18, 1997
* Panama - December 19, 1997
* Peru & Uruguay - December 25, 1997
* Mexico - April 3, 1998 (re-release)
* Argentina - April 9, 1998 (re-release)

Dubbing studio:

* Prime Dubb (now SDI Media de México)
* Musitrón (songs)

Dubbing director: Carlos Pontón

Translator: Jesús Vallejo

Musical Director: Juan Carlos García Amaro

### Additional voices:

* Ángela Villanueva
* Diana Pérez
* Herman López
* Alejandro Illescas
* Ricardo Lezama

### Other Info:

* Anastasia Impostor was dubbed by a man.

## Norwegian

Title: *Anastasia*

Release date: March 20, 1998

## Polish

Title: Anastazja

Release date: January 23, 1998

### Other Info:

* **Sara Mueldner** was only 8 years old when she dubbed Anastasia (young).

## Polish (TV)

Title: Anastazja

Release date: March 31, 2002

### Additional voices:

* ​Barbara Sołtysik
* Krzysztof Strużycki
* Dariusz Błażejewski
* Jolanta Wilk
* Iwona Rulewicz
* Joanna Orzeszkowska
* Rafał Żabiński
* Małgorzata Borkowska
* Iwona Kuryłowicz
* Anna Wyżykowska
* Katarzyna Sołka
* Katarzyna Zima
* Ewelina Rzezińska
* Marcin Trzciński
* Jakub Grabowski
* Cezary Kozłowski
* Piotr Macurewicz

## Romanian

Title: Anastasia

Release date: March 27, 1998

## Russian

Title: Анастасия

Release date: March 13, 1997

## Slovak

Title: Princezná Anastázia

Release date: 200?

### Additional voices:

* Ľubomír Bukový
* Linda Zemánková
* Zuzana Belková
* Andrej Hrnčiar
* Jana Oľhová
* Viliam Hriadel
* Martin Hronský
* Jozef Kramár
* Ján Peťko
* Majka Oľhová
* Julka Oľhová
* Marica Bálintová
* Ján Barto

## Slovak (TV)

Title: Princezná Anastázia

Release date: 2010

### Additional voices:

* Milan Bartošek
* Marián Lipták
* Karol Navrkal

## Slovene

Title: Anastazija

Release date: February 26, 1998

## Swedish

Title: *Anastasia*

Release date: February 6, 1998

### Additional voices

* Håkan Mohede
* Gizela Rasch
* Mikael Roupé
* Annika Rynger

## Turkish

Title: Anastasia

Release date: January 30, 1998

### Additional voices:

* Devrim Parscan
* Özlem Coşkun
* Dilara Tor
* Muzaffer Demirel

### Other Info:

* In this version, Dimitri (young) was dubbed by a woman.

## Vietnamese (TV)

Title: Anastasia Nàng Công Chúa Cuối Cùng Của Nước Nga

Release date: May 24, 2013

Dubbing studio: Trí Việt Media

Lyricist: Võ Huyền Chi

### Additional voices:

* Trịnh Kiêm Tiến
* Nguyễn Vũ Minh Chuyên
* Trần Vũ
* Đặng Hạnh Phúc

### Singers:

Choir:

* Võ Huyền Chi
* Hồ Tiến Đạt

### Other Info:

* This is a TV dubbing made by Channel "HTV3"
* **Hồ Tiến Đạt**, the voice of Rasputin, was only 28 years-old when he dubbed the character.
* Võ Huyền Chi did the choirall by herself in the song "In the Dark of the Night", using autotune to give the impression of choir.