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Severine Holt

Known as Severine

Oberstar

Kaltbruch’s warden is beautiful, cunning, sadistic and ruthless. She notices attachment and uses personal attention to make obedience costly.

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Colonel Severine Holt sits at a worn desk with a closed file, intercom and cassette, watching an unseen visitor with composed interest.
Colonel Severine Holt

Kaltbruch’s warden studies the person required to wait before her.

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seated behind the warden’s desk. The visitor is off scene. Warden is her appointment; Oberstar is her military rank.

The warden & the people who run Kaltbruch
Colonel Severine Holt studies an adult prisoner asking for a dry work glove while a guarded adult work detail waits beside a heavy carrier and communications equipment.
The cost of attention

Holt can turn a small request into a test of obedience.

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right, facing the prisoner with the glove. Rada is the prisoner whose request she has chosen to make personal.

Also in the scene: Rada Kernik

The warden & the people who run Kaltbruch
Holt studies papers while Dara waits across the desk and Salka stands nearby.
An audience with the warden

Holt lets the silence lengthen before answering Dara.

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right, seated with the papers. Dara is the prisoner waiting for her answer; Salka attends in her records role.

Also in the scene: Dara Venn, Salka Ren

The Wrong Return
Holt holds a closed envelope while Salka watches and Dara waits beyond the glazed door.
The reply still held

A letter reaches custody before it reaches the person waiting for it.

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right foreground, holding the envelope. Dara is the prisoner waiting for the letter; Salka attends as records clerk.

Also in the scene: Salka Ren, Dara Venn

The Wrong Return
Warden and inmate. A tense encounter between a female warden and a male inmate, with the mixed adult prison population behind them.
Warden and inmateA tense encounter between a female warden and a male inmate, with the mixed adult prison population behind them.

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right, facing the male inmate. Rask is the prisoner she has stopped; she holds command authority over the encounter.

Also in the scene: Rask Varlen

Authority & Kaltbruch