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Duchess business.

EXT. BERLIN GARDEN CAFE—DAY
MEDIUM LUDWIG AND ANNA.

ANNA unwraps a small package at the table.

Ludwig: My thanks for your coming.
Anna: A cross, Your Excellency. It is so very lovely.
Ludwig: Olga thinks me foolish.
Anna: Not foolish. Your note spoke with the kindness I needed.
Ludwig: You are easy to be kind to.
Anna: The cross was Anastasia’s?
Ludwig: Once Anya lived in Peterhof Castle.

CLOSE ANNA
Anna: I have read Lenin. To the Revolutionaries she was a prop
in a royal play.

MEDIUM ANNA AND LUDWIG

Ludwig: The girl was real. She was warm.
Anna: So much...you miss her?
Ludwig: I miss them all.
Anna: The world has changed.
Ludwig: So Olga says.
Anna: She might at least rent a castle in Spain.

ANOTHER ANGLE

Ludwig: Anna?
Anna: Excellency?
Ludwig: Secretly. Trust in an old uncle who longs for his niece,
for his past. Say you are Anastasia.
Anna: Please, Your Excellency.
Ludwig: Anya!
Anna: The person I am is Anna Eisenstein.
Ludwig: Anya, my heart—for all of Russia—hears otherwise.

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