Your Highness, a hangman is an executioner, the man who takes heads off skillfully....
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Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse:
"A nice harness." What is he, a horse doctor? Herr Wagner:
You flatter him. Our learned medico is going to perform one of his operations with an ax. He's the public hangman. Sophia as a Child:
Hangman? What's a Hangman? Can I become a hangman someday? Herr Wagner:
Your Highness, a hangman is an executioner, the man who takes heads off skillfully. Sometimes that curious profession becomes the sport of tyrants. As a matter of fact, I was about to read to you of Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible, and other Russian tsars and tsarinas who were hangmen
"A nice harness." What is he, a horse doctor? Herr Wagner:
You flatter him. Our learned medico is going to perform one of his operations with an ax. He's the public hangman. Sophia as a Child:
Hangman? What's a Hangman? Can I become a hangman someday? Herr Wagner:
Your Highness, a hangman is an executioner, the man who takes heads off skillfully. Sometimes that curious profession becomes the sport of tyrants. As a matter of fact, I was about to read to you of Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible, and other Russian tsars and tsarinas who were hangmen
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A nice harness What is he a horse doctor
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You flatter him Our learned medico is going to perform one of his operations with an ax
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He's the public hangman Hangman
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What's a hangman Can I become a hangman someday
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Your Highness a hangman is an executioner the man who takes heads off skillfully
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Sometimes that curious profession becomes the sport of tyrants
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As a matter of fact I was about to read to you of Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible
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and other Russian tsars and tsarinas who were hangmen
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Movie Summary
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Actors
Herr Wagner
Sophia As A Child
