The Last Station is an upcoming German biographical film about Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini. It stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy.
It premiered at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights and plans to give the film an awards-qualifying limited run on December 23, 2009, with a wider release in early 2010.
It is also scheduled to be released in Germany...
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The Last Station is an upcoming German biographical film about Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini. It stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy.
It premiered at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights and plans to give the film an awards-qualifying limited run on December 23, 2009, with a wider release in early 2010.
It is also scheduled to be released in Germany on January 21, 2010.
The film explores the turbulent final year in the life of the Russian writer and philosopher and his troubled marriage.
Filming took place in Saxony-Anhalt as well as the German states of Brandenburg (Studio Babelsberg) and Thuringia, the city of Leipzig and at historical locations in Russia.
Helen Mirren won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival for her performance.
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