Anastasia

Footman: Your highness… Coachman: Hyah! Marie: [narrating] There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. Marie: [narrating] The year was 1916… Marie: [narrating] …and my son Nicholas, was the Czar of Imperial Russia. [Move into palace] Marie: Hello, darling. [narrating] We were celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of our family’s rule. Nicholas: [laughter] Young Anastasia: Oh, Papa! Marie: [narrating] …and that night, no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Anastasia, my youngest granddaughter. Marie: [narrating] She begged me not to return to Paris - so I had a very special gift made for her… Young Anastasia: [gasps] Marie: [narrating] … to make the separation easier for both of us. Young Anastasia: For me?! Is it a jewelry box?! Servant: Dimitri, you belong in the kitchen. Young Dimitri: Let go! Marie: Look. Young Anastasia: [gasps] It plays our lullaby! Marie: You can play it at night before you go to sle

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Marie: [narrating] But we would never be together in Paris. For a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Romanovs. His name was Rasputin. We thought he was a Holy Man, but he was a fraud, power-mad and dangerous. Nicholas: How dare you return to the palace?! Rasputin: But I am your confidant. Nicholas: Confidant? Ha! You are a traitor. Get out!! Rasputin: [to Nicholas] You think you can banish the Great Rasputin? By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you with a curse! Rasputin: [to Nicholas] Mark my words. You and your family will die within the fortnight! I will not rest until I see the END OF THE ROMANOV LINE FOREVER!!!! Rasputin (flashback): [Rasputin, kneeling in a sorcerer’s circle, cowers as a huge, shadowy figure appears above him.] Marie: [narrating] Consumed by his hatred for Nicholas and his family, Rasputin sold his soul for the power to destroy them. Rasputin: [to Reliquary] Go. Fulfill your dark purpose, and seal the fate of the Czar and his family once and

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Old Man: ♪St. Petersburg is gloomy♪ Younger Woman: ♪St. Petersburg is bleak♪ Shivering Man: ♪My underwear got frozen standing here all week!♪ All: ♪Oh, since the revolution, our lives have been so gray.♪ ♪Thank goodness for the gossip that gets us through the day!♪ ♪Hey!♪ ♪Have you heard there’s a rumor in St. Petersburg?♪ ♪Have you heard what they’re saying on the street?♪ Newsman: ♪Although the Czar did not survive♪ ♪One daughter may be still alive♪ All: ♪The Princess Anastasia!♪ Newsman: ♪But please do not repeat!♪ All: ♪It’s a rumor, a legend, a mystery!♪ ♪Something whispered in an alleyway or through a crack!♪ ♪It’s a rumor that’s part of our history!♪ Babushka: ♪They say her royal grandmama will pay a royal sum♪ All: ♪To someone who can bring the princess back!♪ [We go to a seedy corner of the town, where black marketers ply their wares. Some are selling remnants from the ransacked palace. Vladimir waits nervously while Dimitri, now 20, haggles with a scary looking gangster.] Bla

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Phlegmenkof: I got you a job in the Fish Factory. You go straight down this path till you get to the fork in the road, go left - are you listening? Anya: Bye, bye, everybody, I’m listening Comrade Phlegmenkof. Phlegmenkof: You’ve been a thorn in my side since you were brought here. Anya: He-hey. Phlegmenkof: Acting like the Queen of Sheba, instead of the nameless no account you are. And for the last ten years I’ve fed you, I’ve clothed you. I’ve kept a roof over your head- Anya: [miming those exact words, then interrupts] Kept a roof over my head. Phlegmenkof: Oh! How is it you don’t have a clue as to who you were before you came to us, but you can remember all that? Anya: [holding necklace] I do have a clue to-- Phlegmenkof: [interrupts] Ugh! I know! [pulls at the necklace] Phlegmenkof: "Together in Paris." So, you want to go to France to find your family, huh? [laughs] Anya: Mm-hmm. Phlegmenkof: … Little Miss Anya, it’s time to take your place in life. Anya: [gasp] Phlegmenkof: …in l

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Anya: [mimicks Phelemenkof’s speech.] "Be grateful, Anya". [in normal voice] I am grateful! Grateful to get away [She comes to a fork in the road. She stops. One sign points to "Fisherman’s Village and the other sign points to "St. Petersburg.] Go left, she says. Well, I know what’s to the left. I’ll be Anya the Orphan forever. But if I go right … Maybe I could find… [she touches her necklace] Who ever gave me this necklace must have loved me… This is crazy! Me go to Paris … ? [She tilts her head skyward and closes her eyes in prayer.] Send me a sign! A hint! Anything! Anya: Hey, hey, hey, hey! Anya: I don’t have time to play right now, OK. I’m waiting for a sign. Anya: [exasperated] Would you give me that, could you, would you please leave me alone. Stop, give me that back, gi … gi … Oh!!! Anya: Oh, … Oh, great. A dog wants me to go to St. Petersburg. [Glancing Skyward] Okay… Anya: I can take a hint. Anya: ♪Heart, don't fail me now♪ ♪Courage, don't desert me♪ ♪Don't turn back♪ ♪Now th

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Anya: One ticket to Paris, please. Ticket Agent: [gruffly] Exit visa? Anya: Exit visa? Ticket Agent: No exit visa, no ticket. Anya: Oh, hmm. Sweeper Woman: [whispering] Psst. See Dimitri. He can help. Anya: Where can I find him? Sweeper Woman: At the old Palace, but you didn’t hear it from me. Anya: Oh. Sweeper Woman: Go, go, go, go. Anya: Hmm, Dimitri. Dimitri: Nice, nice, very nice, yeah… Actress: And I look like a princess, and I dance like a feather. Dimitri: … Okay, hmm, thank you, thank you. Next, please! Ludmilla: Grandmama. It’s me, Anastasia… Vladimir: [moans] Dimitri: [to himself] Oh, brother. Vladimir: That’s it, Dimitri. Game over. Our last kopeck gone for this flea-infested theater, and still no girl to pretend to be Anastasia! [frustrated] Dimitri: We’ll find her, Vlad. She’s here somewhere, right under our noses. Dimitri: Don’t forget, one look at this jewelry box and the Empress will think we’ve brought the real Anastasia … Anya: I’m looking for the Catherine … Anya: Ex

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