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It's definitely in the film, and definitely an interpretation, but certainly not the only interpretation. Anna could be Anastasia; she could be Anna Koreff, an ordinary woman who was injured in a train. She could be both. She could equally plausibly be neither.

The moment that convinces her grandmother is when she starts coughing, and says that she's not sick, she's just nervous - coughing when nervous is something that Anastasia used to do, but in fact Anna began the movie extremely ill and still might be. What I like about the the 'does it matter?' question is that it works both ways -- she can't be Anastasia again, whether or not she ever was that person; but also, if she and her grandmother both have found something in each other that they were lacking, does it matter if it's not, strictly speaking, real?

I completely forgot Westmark did an impersonate-the-long-lost-heir! The 90s Anastasia was probably mine, honestly. I always felt like Disney's Tangled should have segued straight into an Anastasia riff after the end of the film - 'our long-lost daughter is WHOM? Prove it.'