The Last Station is an upcoming German
biographical film about Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini. It stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy.
It premiered at the 200 Telluride Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classic acquired distribution rights and plans to give the film an awards-qualifying limited run on December 23, 2009, with a wider release in early 2010.
It is also scheduled to be released in Germany on January 21, 2010.
Plot
Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.
Official website:http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelaststation/
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