The Last Station

One very interesting kinorabot, which we will see in 2009. The film “The Last Station» (The Last Station) – film adaptation of the same novel writer Jay Parini on the last year of life of Leo Tolstoy. Film starring Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Helen Mirren.

Plot of the film “The Last Station» (The Last Station):
Plot of the film is based on the novel by Parini, so you should talk first about it. Jay Parini accidentally read the English translation of Tolstoy’s memoirs Secretary Valentin Bulgakov, then went to the station Astapovo, where he died Leo Tolstoy. Reading the diaries, letters and memoirs Parini discovered the painful drama of the last year of life of the great writer. I wrote poludokumentalny novel “The Last Station”, based on the memoirs and diaries of six people.

This is a novel in which actual Tolstoy himself pushed back a little into the background. Graf is an object for manipulation and uncompromising struggle between his wife Sophia Andreevnoj and ideological ally of Vladimir Chertkov. Spiritual conflict is shifting towards household – two contenders for the literary heritage of fighting with each other.

Through this reading of the last year of Tolstoy’s film “The Last Station” may be of interest not only highbrow intellectuals, they just take him with bayonets and raskritikuyut, the movie will look massive audience. Not those who think “Transformers” the highest achievement of cinema, of course, but mature and interested in this movie, this movie will be interesting.

The film “The Last Station» (The Last Station) is interesting because it is the Russian mind, the American writer, a German director Michael Hoffman. The film is very interesting composition of the actors. Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy, Helen Mirren as his wife, James McAvoy in the role of the Secretary Valentin Bulgakov.

McEvoy judging by the trailer is one of the main, if not the main hero of the film. Who became famous after the movie Bekmambetov “Wanted” McAvoy plays his second major role in a film about Leo Tolstoy. His name is able to attract audiences to the film, which is also useful.
Release Date:
December 4, 2009 (NY, LA)

Studio:
Sony Pictures Classics

Director:
Michael Hoffman

Screenwriter:
Michael Hoffman

Starring:
Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff

Genre:
Drama, Historical

MPAA Rating:
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Official Website:
SonyClassics.com/TheLastStation

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Plot Summary:
After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy’s (Christopher Plummer) 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!

When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy’s trusted disciple, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti)—whom she despises—may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his very own family, she is consumed by righteous outrage. This is the last straw. Using every bit of cunning, every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, she fights fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. The more extreme her behavior becomes, however, the more easily Chertkov is able to persuade Tolstoy of the damage she will do to his glorious legacy.

Into this minefield wanders Tolstoy’s worshipful new assistant, the young, gullible Valentin (James McAvoy). In no time, he becomes a pawn, first of the scheming Chertkov and then of the wounded, vengeful Sofya as each plots to undermine the other’s gains. Complicating Valentin’s life even further is the overwhelming passion he feels for the beautiful, spirited Marsha (Kerry Condon), a free thinking adherent of Tolstoy’s new religion whose unconventional attitudes about sex and love both compel and confuse him. Infatuated with Tolstoy’s notions of ideal love, but mystified by the Tolstoys’ rich and turbulent marriage, Valentin is ill equipped to deal with the complications of love in the real world.

A tale of two romances, one beginning, one near its end, “The Last Station” is a complex, funny, rich and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.

Trailer (11.24.09):