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Anna: You’re hurting me.... They summered at Lavadia on the
Black Sea.
Olga: Certainly.
Anna: Everyone knows that.
Olga: Now tell me you are not the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

CLOSE UP TEUFEL

Teufel: (Threatening) Anna!

MEDIUM TWO-SHOT OLGA AND ANNA AS ABOVE

Anna: I am not, I am certainly not, the Grand Duchess Anasta-
sia.

OLGA releases ANNA’s chin. OLGA wipes her hands.

Olga: Of course not. Teufel gives you too much powder. Too
much rouge.

MEDIUM OLGA AND ANNA FEATURING LUDWIG

Olga: (To LUDWIG) I’ll not call anyone here an old fool. Are
you satisfied? My instincts were right. A woman can always
read...another woman.
Anna: Please, go.
Olga: Come, Ernst Ludwig. Katharine. Let us leave this mad-
house. Let us leave Frau Teufel and her rouged little puppet.

OLGA turns on her heel and sweeps grandly out.

MEDIUM TWO-SHOT LUDWIG AND ANNA

Ludwig: ...And when was the last time that Anastasia saw me,
her uncle, Ernst Ludwig?
Anna: Some say, Excellency, in 1916 when you entered the back
door of the palace in St. Petersburg to effect a separate peace
between Germany and Russia.
Ludwig: Only a fool would accuse me of such treason.
Anna: I’m a fool. A fool for everyone.

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