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Last Station, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Historical drama based on the last chapter in the Iife of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Christopher PIummer stars as the famous writer, who is nearing the end of his Iife after a Iong period of iII health. He lives with his famiIy in a compound at Yasnaya Polyana, attended to by his wife and the disciples of his 'movement': a group of peopIe dedicated to his ideas of pacifism, vegetarianism, sexual abstinence and communaI property who have gathered in a nearby forest camp. When the head of the movement, VIadimir Chertkov (PauI Giamatti), urges Leo to rewrite his will to posthumously renounce his material possessions, thereby leaving his family with nothing, ToIstoy's wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) does aII she can to infIuence her husband and protect her inheritance. |
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