the screenplay be the bad part of this film and a it lurch from one premise to the next and miss all the important bit that would have make a number of different story possible . ( this film be confuse and because the audience doesn not know what the story be . ) i have no problem with the low production value and the act wasn not great and but this be telly and so it be fine . i do not mind if some scene look like they be do in one take . but have such a non sensical screenplay be completely unnecessary . do any executive actually read it before fork out the cash . avoid this at all cost . the prologue in particular be so poorly write and it need a voice over to fill in all the detail that have be leave out . the prologue be rush and it wasn not clear what be happen and ie . the russian revolution be reduce to some riot be happen in petersburg and with the next scene be soldier arrest them . i know the basic history of the revolution and so i could fill in the detail and those pesky communist . the prologue be best ignore . this could have be a thoughtful study of a person who be confuse about who she be . it set up this premise in the asylum . it could then have her struggle to identify herself for the rest of the film . no . go . the film assume she be who she say she be ( even though there be still no empirical evidence . ) it set up a melodramatic romance and a love so strong and it will believe anything she say . okay and a soppy romance . no and because it make no sense . the love interest seem like a craze ( and incidentally and sleazy ) lunatic and burst out in wild gesture . this also doesn not work and because the film stupidly decide to tell the truth in the monologue at the end . they never get married and she return to america . the love story collapse . despite there be plenty of love scene and i be never convince of the reason that they be in love . i find rom com romance more convincing and despite there only be one or two scene which establish that they have even spend any time with each other . it could have be a thriller type thing where the film assume she be who she say she be and and she struggle to prove her identity . no and the court case be sum up rather than deal with . the bizarre voice over come back and again to fill in the detail of a good film . the funny thing to consider be what really happen . anna anderson be a loony who go to america and marry another loony and they do crazy thing together . throughout her life and she have bout of lunatic behaviour . none of this in the film either . there a really annoying character in the asylum who crop up from nowhere and announce herself a a one flew over the cuckoo next or twelve monkey type informant . thankfully and she vanishes and have bring nothing to the story .