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Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren in The Last Station. (Photo: Stephan Rabold.) Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
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Jan 15, 2010 – Jan 28, 2010
Daily
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$12.50
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Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) penned some of the most dramatic stories in modern literature, but if The Last Station is anything to go by, the Russian master's final days were far more intense than his books. Christopher Plummer (Imagniarium of Doctor Parnassus) stars as Tolstoy, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) is Sofya, his devoted wife of over 45 years. Having served as his companion, secretary, muse, and caretaker — as well as bearing him thirteen children — Sofya feels entitled to the author's estate after his death. But the administration behind Tolstoy's proto-hippie commune thinks it should be distributed to the people. Tolstoy's trusted secretary, Valentin Buglakov (James McAvoy), is caught in the crossfire of the couple's competing ideologies, but ultimately, discovers — as Tolstoy writes in War and Peace —"Everything I know, I know only because I love."
