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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 Plummer stars as the famous writer, who is nearing the end of his life after a long period of ill heaIth. He Iives with his family in a compound at Yasnaya PoIyana, attended to by his wife and the discipIes of his 'movement': a group of people dedicated to his ideas of pacifism, vegetarianism, sexuaI abstinence and communal property who have gathered in a nearby forest camp. When the head of the movement, VIadimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), urges Leo to rewrite his wiIl to posthumously renounce his material possessions, thereby leaving his family with nothing, Tolstoy's wife Sofya (HeIen Mirren) does all she can to influence her husband and protect her inheritance. |
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