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Olga: Who are you?

CLOSE UP ANNA
Anna: (Extremely by rote) My father’s name was Josef Chernov.
He starved to death in the Ukraine in 1917. I married Alex
Eisenstein at Sverdlosk in 1920. My husband was killed in the
train accident that broke my jaw. I have no family...

TIGHT CLOSE UP TEUFEL

Teufel: Anna!

TIGHT CLOSE UP ANNA
Anna: ...I have no family. My mother died when I was born.

MEDIUM OLGA, LUDWIG, AND TEUFEL

Olga: Your “Grand Duchess,” Frau Teufel, is not so very grand.
She needs more rehearsal.
Teufel: Please, Anna.
Olga: She has, it seems, learned the wrong part.
Ludwig: The girl is obviously frightened.
Olga: Old men are sentimental old fools around young girls.

MEDIUM KATHARINE

Katharine: Madame, she needs a chance.

MEDIUM TWO-SHOT OLGA AND ANNA
Olga: I’ll give her a chance.

OLGA cups ANNA’s chin in her hand.

Olga: Look at me, girl. Where was the Imperial Winter Palace?
Anna: I don’t know.
Olga: Everyone knows.
Anna: At Tsarskoe Selo.
Olga: And the Imperial Summer Retreat?

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