Lev Tolstoy (1984)
Overview
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 0.212 |
Directed By
Sergei Gerasimov
Crew
Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Gerasimov
Sergey Filippov
Zuzana Gindl-Tatárová
Miloš Kalina
Tatyana Protopopova
Aleksandr Popov
Pavel Chekalov
Milan Čorba
Yevgeniya Chervonskaya
Eleonora Maklakova
Ida Dorofeyeva
B. Trebukhin
Igor Musatov
N. Matveyeva
Anna Hroššová
Katalin Jánosy
Yevgeniya Chalenkova
Valentin Khlobynin
Ye. Guseva
Katarína Mertzová
A. Sokolov
Ambróz Serina
Václav Polák
V. Kuzin
Viliam Čánky
Igor Pivovarov
Regina Khomskaya
Stanislav Možný
Valentina Pustovalova
Martyn Nersesyan
Galina Bodrova
Eugeny Mayorov
Ján Prikler
Zoro Záhon
Michaela Ridošová
Oleg Lagodinskiy
Jozef Malík
Erlen Senyavskiy
Beata Kodajová
Yevgeniya Chalenkova
Yuriy Alaverdov
Viliam Richter
Аркадий Лазаревич Кушлянский
Viera Dandová
Natalya Stroeva
Boris Kuzovkin
TOP CAST
Sergei Gerasimov
Lev Tolstoi
Tamara Makarova
Sofya Andreyevna
Aleksey Petrenko
Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
Viktor Proskurin
Andrei Lvovich
Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksandr Borisovich Goldenveizer
Bořivoj Navrátil
Dushan Petrovich Makovitsky
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Aleksandra Lyvovna
Konstantin Grigorev
Merchant
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