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Anna: I am not...

CLOSE LUDWIG
Ludwig: No. Please. If for you, you must now be Anna Eisen-
stein, then be Anna Eisenstein.

CLOSE ANNA

Anna: I am not...
CLOSE LUDWIG

Ludwig: But for me, at least do not say you were never Anasta-
sia.
MEDIUM ANNA AND LUDWIG

ANNA tries kindly to leaven the situation.
Anna: Excellency, who I am is easy to say. Who I have never
been, ah, that is a list longer than the Berlin telephone direc-
tory.
Ludwig: (Smiles) You have reason to trust no one.
Anna: Thank you.
Ludwig: One day yet, Anna Eisenstein, I shall raise you from
the underground and prove you and the Grand Duchess Olga
royally wrong. She has bet me 10,000 Deutsche marks.
Anna: (Smiles) I am sorry you will lose.
INT. LUDWIG’S GRAND HOTEL SUITE—NIGHT

CLOSE BORODIN REVEALING OLGA

CLOSE SHOT of the jewel-encrusted hand of a male
Russian aristocrat, BORODIN, who feeds caviar on a
cracker to a hyper-groomed poodle. The dog eats a lick.
BORODIN raises the cracker to his own face as the
SHOT PULLS BACK. He nibbles and returns the rest to
the dog. OLGA, ever the Dowager Grand Duchess, sits

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