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her escape?)

14. MEDIUM NICHOLAS sitting in cellar chair hold-
ing ALEXIS.

Anastasia: (Voice Over) Father!

DISSOLVE

EXT. BERLIN STREET
LANDWEHR CANAL—NIGHT

CLOSE UP ANNA

Anna: LEAVE ME ALONE!

(Here the tension must build with some ambiguity toward
a possible plunge into the canal)

Anna: I...am...not...you. Leave me alone! You will not...possess...
me. Leave me. I am not you. Not you!

LONG ANNA

ANNA collapses toward the water, and falls to the edge
of the canal.
MEDIUM ANNA REVEALING MALENKOV

Next to ANNA’s face, her hand hangs in the murky canal.
A pair of Soviet shoes steps in next to her face. A cigarette
hits the cobbles and is ground out. Camera pans slowly
up the heavy suited body of MALENKOV. He smiles
enigmatically.
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