Festival Film: The Last Station

Film about the life and death of Leo Tolstoy.

We are screening The Last Station (2009) to end the 2010 Festival.

Both Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer were nominated for awards by the U.S. Academy (Oscar) 2010 and the Golden Globe 2010. Director: Michael Hoffman.

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
N.B. All dates / times are provisional
and subject to final confirmation

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LINK: www.thelaststation.co.uk
The Official Site for The Last Station, a film by Michael Hoffman, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy.

“Set in the last tumultuous years of Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s life, ‘The Last Station’ centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov.

Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.”