The read
It runs long at 2h 48m.
Synopsis
This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei GerasimovDirector
- Sergei GerasimovScreenplay
- Pavel ChekalovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
Stills
Themes
biography1900s