The Tolstoy Defence

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.

• Avdotya SmirnovaScreenplay
• Avdotya SmirnovaDirector
• Anna ParmasScreenplay
• Pavel BasinskyScreenplay
• Aleksey GolubenkoOriginal Music Composer
• Vasiliy VakulenkoOriginal Music Composer

• Alexey SmirnovGrigoriy Apollonovich Kolokoltsev, porochik
• Philipp GurevichVasily Stepanovich Shabunin, rotnyi pisar
• Evgeny KharitonovLev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Irina GorbachevaSofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, zhena Lva
• Łukasz SimlatKazimir Bronislavovich Yatsevich, kapitan, komandir roty
• Sergey UmanovAleksandr Matveyevich Stasyulevich, praporschik
• Liza YankovskayaTatyana Andreevna Bers, sestra Sofyi Tolstoy
• Aleksey MakarovSergey Tolstoy
• Anna MikhalkovaAnna Ivanovna, uchitelnitsa nigilistka
• Igor ZolotovitskyNikolay Ilyich, upravlyayuchi
• Andrey SmirnovApollon Kolokoltsev, general
• Gennadiy SmirnovPyotr Alekseevich Yunosha, polkovnik