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Teufel: Your face is her face—grown up.
Anna: You paint on a mask.
Teufel: If you will not tell me, the hungry Romanovs will tell me
who you are.
Anna: I am nobody.
Teufel: Nobody is nobody. Nobody disappears. Always someone
knows. Someone passes in the street and says, “I remember
her.”
Anna: I come from nowhere.
Teufel: The left-over Romanov relatives will remember who you
are.
Anna: Be suspicious, Frau Teufel, very suspicious of anyone who
“remembers” me.
INT. 1928 ROLLS ROYCE. BERLIN—DAY

MEDIUM TWO-SHOT OLGA AND LUDWIG

Driving to the Berlin sanitarium, the Grand Duchess
OLGA, the Grand Duke ERNST LUDWIG, and the
former Romanov governess KATHARINE are in close
conversation as they are chauffeured.
Olga: Spare me more impostors pretending to be my dead
nieces.
Ludwig: We must check every possibility.
Olga: They are dead, Ludwig. All dead and lucky.
Ludwig: But if only one of them, only one, is alive. Russia lives.

ANOTHER ANGLE INCLUDING KATHARINE
Olga: Speak to me no more of our Holy Russia. Now it is their
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Katharine, what does
that mean?

KATHARINE smiles and shrugs.
Ludwig: If Frau Teufel’s girl is our niece, then Russians every-
where have hope. Anastasia can be crowned empress.

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