Last night I came across by chance in a film ...
By chance ... or maybe not ...
However, the film in question is "The Last Station" and see Tolstoy speaks of our own!
Here is the plot: In
1910, the estate of the writer Leo Tolstoy of Yasnaya Polyana near Moscow, comes the young intellectual Valentin Bulgakov, who was hired by Tolstoy as his secretary staff. At that time, the Russian writer had approached the Christian faith-anarchist, I think the non-violent and had embraced vegetarianism, arriving to give up his riches and the copyright on his works, this has triggered a power struggle that involves his beloved wife, Sofya, that although she loved her husband deeply does not accept his decisions and does not intend to fall into poverty, and the double agent Vladimir Chertkov, leader of the movement created by the writer. The young Valentin finds himself in the middle of this power struggle, unable to handle the events.
The Last Station is a 2009 film directed by Michael Hoffman and based on the novel The Last Station - The novel of the last days of Tolstoy (Bompiani) writer Jay Parini .
I must say I enjoyed the film. It 'been nice to sneak in the writer's life right now that I'm reading. The protagonist (Christopher Plummer) is very convincing and his wife Sofia is played fantastically by Helen Mirren.
What can I say, I recommend it. Maybe prepare a nice cup of aromatic tea and enjoy this trip to Russia.
Lever
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