Rasputin, and Tsar Nicholas II were real people, fewer realize that Don Bluth’s Anastasia was only half based on them. Despite the film playing out like a classic Disney fairy tale, its roots ...

Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd), the mystic ... Despite the hard work and big screen battle, "Anastasia," ultimately became a Disney movie when the company acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019.

By Tara Bitran No, Anastasia is not a Disney princess. Anastasia went on to earn $139 million, receive two Oscar nominations and even inspire a stage adaptation of the musical film that premiered ...

In any case, enjoy this chronological recap of why Anastasia remains a cheap-but-thoroughly amusing Disney knock-off ... over the place eating apples. 3. Rasputin is every inch a half-assed ...

I would be in one room with Susan, and I’d be writing Bartok [the bat] and Rasputin and the train ... that extends to this day about Anastasia is that it is a Disney film.

Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares.

(Disney’s recent re-release of “The ... Russia falls to peasant hordes and cute kitchen boy Dimitri helps adorable Anastasia escape Rasputin, who falls through the ice and drowns.