Think of Leo Tolstoy and the mind inevitably wanders to his epic slab of a novel War And Peace. A movie about the celebrated author's life might not be an easy sell, but director Michael Hoffman ...

"Everything that I know, I know only because I love..." wrote Leo Tolstoy in his fictional epic, War and Peace. This poignant quote serves as the topical opener in Michael Hoffman's exquisite-looking ...

Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts, and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was “the most celebrated writer in the world,” The Last Station threatens at first to ...

Leo Tolstoy chronicled the Napoleonic period in perhaps the most famous, influential novel ever written. But for the author of the seminal “War and Peace,” it was his own household that proved to be ...

Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was "the most celebrated writer in the world," The Last Station threatens at first to ...

The Last Station is Michael Hoffman's evocation of the last years of writer Leo Tolstoy. It's a "seduction that draws us into a vanished world where Count Leo Tolstoy and his wife of 48 years, ...

Adapted from a novel by Jay Parini, this lively costume drama chronicles the last days of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), presented here as a knock-down, drag-out battle between his longtime ...