[A number of the film""s most violent moments occur off-screen, e.g., the opening suicide, the bar-fly""s torture and killing, the car explosion, the scalding with hot coffee, Larry Gordon""s death, etc.Later, in an interrogation room within the Governor""s offices, suspicious State Security Chief Inspector Kolp (Severn Darden) questioned Armando about the presumed resemblance between a photo of the executed chimp Cornelius and the picture of his own circus chimpanzee.]The two lead roles, Dr.Vitus Werdegast and Poelzig, are characters who experienced bad blood between them due to past betrayals and murder.After showing off Sebastian""s studio at the end of the garden, she mentioned how most people""s lives were nothing but "trails of debris.Now the one composition of Tchaikovsky""s that he really detested was hisNutcracker Suite, which is probably he most popular thing he ever wrote.