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Duchess Berlin 1928 235

MEDIUM ANNA AND TEUFEL

Anna: No.

ANNA cries, buries her face in the pillow. TEUFEL turns
smugly into camera and exits. SHOT HOLDS on the
sobbing ANNA for three beats.

DISSOLVE

INT. SANITARIUM. ANNA’S ROOM—MORNING
FULL ANNA

ANNA sits in a rocker covered with a lap robe. She has
been reading, and she sits in a glow of sunshine. Flowers are
at the window. It is springtime in Berlin. FRAU TEUFEL
enters. ANNA is startled from her pleasant reverie.
Teufel: A special morning, Duchess.
Anna: I told you. Do not call me that.
Teufel: There are some who remember you were once upon a
time somebody very special.
Anna: Never. I am not special. From before my train accident
there is little “special” I remember.

MEDIUM ANNA AND TEUFEL
TEUFEL begins to brush ANNA’s hair. The girl does not
resist.

Teufel: Your mother, the Czarina, was German. You have fled to
the proper country.
Anna: Germany?
Teufel: Like you, we understand the political convenience of
“amnesia.”
Anna: Sometimes it is better not to remember.

TEUFEL touches some rouge to ANNA’s cheeks. ANNA
flinches slightly.

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