Lev Tolstoy

The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.

• Sergei GerasimovDirector
• Sergei GerasimovScreenplay
• Pavel ChekalovOriginal Music Composer

• Sergei GerasimovLev Tolstoi
• Tamara MakarovaSofya Andreyevna
• Aleksey PetrenkoVladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
• Viktor ProskurinAndrei Lvovich
• Nikolay EryomenkoAleksandr Borisovich Goldenveizer
• Bořivoj NavrátilDushan Petrovich Makovitsky
• Yekaterina VasilyevaAleksandra Lyvovna
• Konstantin GrigorevMerchant
• Marina TarasovaCast
• Lyubov PolekhinaCast
• Yan YanakiyevCast
• Aleksey ShmarinovCast