Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Release Year: 2009
Country: Germany, Russia, UK
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Languages: English
Director: Michael Hoffman
Taglines:

  • Intoxicating. Infuriating. Impossible. Love.


    • Writing by: Michael Hoffman – (screenplay)
    Jay Parini – (novel)

    Produced by: Bonnie Arnold – producer
    Dorothe Beinemeier – junior producer
    Luke Carey – assistant producer
    Chris Curling – producer
    Andrey Deryabin – associate producer: Russia
    Brian Donovan – line producer
    Melanie Faul – assistant producer
    Undine Filter – junior producer
    Regina Frankenberger – junior producer
    Marc Hansell – associate producer
    Yvonne Hüttig – assistant producer
    Ewa Karlström – co-producer
    Andrei Konchalovsky – executive producer
    Frank Lehmann – associate producer
    Robert Little – executive producer
    Jens Meurer – producer
    Phil Robertson – executive producer
    Judy Tossell – executive producer
    Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton – co-producer
    Marc Wächter – production executive
    Jona Wirbeleit – assistant producer

    Cast: Christopher Plummer – Leo Tolstoy
    James McAvoy – Valentin Bulgakov
    Helen Mirren – Sofya Tolstoy
    Paul Giamatti – Vladimir Chertkov
    Anne-Marie Duff – Sasha Tolstoy
    Kerry Condon – Masha
    Patrick Kennedy – Sergeyenko
    John Sessions – Dushan
    David Masterson – Reporter
    Tomas Spencer – Andrey Tolstoy
    Maximilian Gärtner – Kind

    Music: Sergei Yevtushenko
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    Plot Outline: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
    Plot: The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.

    Movie Quotes: Ryan Bingham: How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.


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