Film Details

Coming to theriverside from : Friday 19th March 2010

Certificate : 15

Genre : Historical | Drama | Biography

Run Time : 1hour 50minutes

Director : Michael Hoffman

Writers : Michael Hoffman ( screenplay )

    Jay Parini ( novel )

Cast : Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti

  James McAvoy, Kerry Condon

Directed by Michael Hoffman, The Last Station is based on the novel by Jay Parini and stars James McAvoy as Valentin Bulgakov, the newly appointed secretary to the novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), who is approaching the end of his life in 1910 Russia. Holed up in a country mansion, Bulgakov is witness to an increasingly bitter conflict between Tolstoy's loyal disciple Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), who wants Tolstoy to bequeath the rights to his work to the people, and his devoted wife Sofya (Helen Mirren), who despises Chertkov and can't understand why her husband would want to effectively disinherit his family.