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Karkov: Cart the “royal” pigs out to the truck. At the mine shaft
is kerosene and lime. Burn them. Not one trace of them shall
remain. Not one splinter of bone. Not one relic. The Old
Russia is dead. This is the last of the stinking Romanovs.

KARKOV spits.
DISSOLVE

INT. BEDROOM OF

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA—NIGHT

MEDIUM EUGENEV

EUGENEV stands before the photograph of the Family.
His eyes are moist. His finger moves, tremulously, toward
the photo. CAMERA TIGHTENS DOWN as his forefin-
ger presses on Anastasia’s face and rubs down to her chest.
SHOT holds on her smiling teenage face.

SOUND
MAIN LOVE THEME MUSIC SWELLS

FADE OUT

ACT II
FADE IN

INT. SANITARIUM. ANNA’S ROOM.
BERLIN—NIGHT

SUPERIMPOSE logo
BERLIN 1928

CLOSE UP ANNA’s face

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