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 a personal experience of Exile, Return and the Dream of a Homeland. This journey between the Dream and the Reality contains lots of happiness, hope and yet disappointments.

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, ...