- The Last Station
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name = The Last Station
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director =Michael Hoffman
producer = Jens Meurer
Chris CurlingBonnie Arnold
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starring =Christopher Plummer Helen Mirren Paul Giamatti James McAvoy Anne-Marie Duff
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distributor =Warner Bros.
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0824758"The Last Station" is an upcoming biographical film about
Leo Tolstoy , based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name byJay Parini cite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983229.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|author=Ed Meza|title=Mirren, Plummer to star in 'Station'
publisher=Variety Magazine |date=2008-03-31|accessdate=2008-06-21] . It starsChristopher Plummer as Tolstoy. No official release dates have been announced.Plot
The film will explore the turbulent final year in the life of the Russian writer and philosopher and his troubled marriage.
Cast
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Christopher Plummer asLeo Tolstoy
*Helen Mirren as Sofya Tolstoy, Leo's wife
*Paul Giamatti as Tolstoy's trusted followerVladimir Chertkov
*James McAvoy as a naive private secretary sent by Chertkov to work for Tolstoy
*Anne-Marie Duff as Leo and Sofya's daughter SashaProduction
Filming took place in
Saxony-Anhalt as well as the German states ofBrandenburg (Studio Babelsberg ) andThuringia , the city ofLeipzig and at historical locations in Russia.References
External Links
*imdb title|0824758|The Last Station
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