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1. CLOSE ANASTASIA’s joyous young face; she runs,
unlimping, down a flight of stairs.
2. CLOSE UP NICHOLAS’ face turning into camera
and smiling.

3. DISSOLVE to NICHOLAS’ face in the Royal
Photograph.

4. SOUND of young Grand Duchesses laughing in echo
mixed with the sound of a long-forgotten Imperial Orches-
tra playing discordantly a familiar and sentimental Russian
melody in a minor key.

5. SOUND: a harsh chord.

6. NEWSREEL FOOTAGE from the cinema as seen
before.

7. CLOSE UP KARKOV’S face.

8. CLOSE UP ALEXANDRA standing up.

Alexandra: My sweet Jesus!
9. SOUND of gunshots

10. CLOSE UP ANASTASIA

Anastasia: Eugenev!

11. FULL of lonely peasant wagon cutting across the
horizon.

12. CLOSE UP ANASTASIA lying unmoving under rags
in wagon.
13. MEDIUM EUGENEV turns from driver’s seat to look
down at her. (Is the handsome young guard hauling her
dead body to the secret burial site or is he making good

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