Last Station, The

Superb acting, photography, and scenery dominate this compelling, factually based 2009 film about the passionate and tumultuous relationship between famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren) in early 1900s Russia that becomes even more volatile when a longtime advisor Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) uses a gullible secretary (James McAvoy), who falls for a free-spirited teacher (Kerry Condon), as his pawn while he encourages the beloved writer to change his will in order to leave the rights of his works, including "War and Peace and Anna Karenina, to the Russian people.
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