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Nicholas: The cellar is damp for my son.
Alexandra: The Czarevitch is not well...
Nicholas: ...as you can see.
Eugenev: For me, I am sorry. But I have my orders. I can change
nothing.
Nicholas: Many crimes are committed in the name of obedience.
Eugenev: You more than anyone know that, Sir.
ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING ANASTASIA

ANASTASIA dislikes the exchange. She throws EU-
GENEV a glance. EUGENEV shrugs. She takes her
father’s arm.

Anastasia: Come, father.
Nicholas: Thank you, Anya.

ANOTHER ANGLE

The FAMILY sits down to wait. They form a tableau ar-
ranged exactly like a living copy of the portrait upstairs.

CLOSE UP ANASTASIA
ANASTASIA is frightened.

SOUND

GUNSHOT

ANASTASIA starts. She clutches her fur muff to her breast.
A shadow falls over her, reacting, as the door opens.
LOW-ANGLE MEDIUM SHOT KARKOV
FAMILY’S P.O.V.

Deeply shadowed, KARKOV reads from a paper. His
moustache is great and thick. Five Cheka guards armed
with rifles and handguns stand beside him.

SOUND

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