The Last Station | |
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2 Nominations | |
Year | 2009 |
Director | Michael Hoffman |
Writer | Michael Hoffman |
Starring | James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti |
82nd Academy Awards |
The Last Station is a 2009 biographical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman. It is an adaptation of the 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini about the final months of Leo Tolstoy's life. The film stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his wife, Sophia Tolstaya.
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After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya, Leo Tolstoy's devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary-she's copied out War and Peace six times...by hand!-suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and even celibacy. After she's born him thirteen children.
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