The Last Station
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy';s struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, believes that her husband';s writings are rightfully hers after he passes, as she wants and believes she deserves the monetary benefits derived from such. And in 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy';s life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy';s works after his death.
4 January 1983, Tipperary, Ireland
1978
6 June 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
7 June 1951, Seifhennersdorf, German Democratic Republic
11 January 1953, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 August 1977, London, England, UK
21 April 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
8 October 1970, Southall, London, England, UK
16 February 1969, Dublin, Ireland
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
December 31, 2010
Mature Tolstoy biopic recounts his conflicted last days.
July 29, 2010
full review at Movies for the Masses
February 24, 2010
The Last Station is a moving, fictionalized account of a piece of real Russian history, a tour de force for an actor who's in his prime in his 70s and 80s, and a real return to form for a director most at home in period pieces.
July 04, 2010
La película es un placer de principio a fin, no sólo por su valor testimonial y su estupenda reconstrucción de época, sino sobre todo por un notable elenco donde se lucen particularmente Helen Mirren y Christopher Plummer.
February 18, 2010
It's rewarding for a film to render rarefied ideas so concretely, but The Last Station works best as a battle of wills between husband and wife.
March 02, 2010
Some critics have derided the central performances as scenery-chewing excess, but these Tolstoys are characters who demand histrionics, and Mirren and Plummer are magnificent in delivering on those demands.
February 12, 2010
Director and writer Michael Hoffman, adapting Jay Parini's novel, lets the history play out, and this little-known chapter plays out nicely indeed.
February 19, 2010
Engaging performers all, but the movie's superficial flummery is slightly exasperating when the true-life events would have provided an even richer palette of ideas.
October 21, 2010
The Last Station is the kind of adult drama that I'm just thankful is still being made. Therefore, I was ecstatic to also find it to be rather good.
July 04, 2010
All of the performances are universally stellar, making this not unlike last year's Doubt %u2014 a solid, if otherwise unremarkable film that provides a playground for performers of prodigious talents.
March 18, 2010
Literature lasts, but sometimes, The Last Station suggests, the ties that bind last, too.
July 08, 2010
Feels akin to using Tolstoy's life to write a greeting card.
