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             Ludwig: In Russia! During the war! No, no, no! I was never
                there. Do you understand? Never there.
             Anna: So...you want me to remember...what you want me to
                remember.

                 LUDWIG bows curtly and exits.
                       CLOSE UP KATHARINE AND ANNA

                 KATHARINE tentatively reaches out toward ANNA,
                 but instead pulls her gesture back to touch her own face.
                 ANNA turns away. Rain has begun to streak the window.
                 KATHARINE exits.

                            TIGHT CLOSE UP TEUFEL
             Teufel: I should turn you out to the streets.

                          MEDIUM ANNA AND TEUFEL

                 ANNA leans into her own rainy reflections at the window.

             Anna: Leave me. Leave me.
             Teufel: My ugly duckling. My ugly, ugly ducking. I’ll turn you
                yet into a swan.

                                    FADE OUT






                                     ACT III

                                     FADE IN
                  INT. RUSSIAN GYPSY CAFE. BERLIN—NIGHT
                                     SOUND

                             Gypsy music, up, then under

                              CLOSE SHOT TEUFEL’s

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