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The Tolstoy Defence (2018)

Sep 06, 2018 Drama 1h 52m
71%
User Score
6.6/10

Overview

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.

Avdotya Smirnova
Director
Anna Parmas
Screenplay
Pavel Basinsky
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Alexey Smirnov
Alexey Smirnov

Grigoriy Apollonovich Kolokoltsev, porochik
Philipp Gurevich
Philipp Gurevich

Vasily Stepanovich Shabunin, rotnyi pisar
Evgeny Kharitonov
Evgeny Kharitonov

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Irina Gorbacheva
Irina Gorbacheva

Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, zhena Lva
Łukasz Simlat
Łukasz Simlat

Kazimir Bronislavovich Yatsevich, kapitan, komandir roty
Sergey Umanov
Sergey Umanov

Aleksandr Matveyevich Stasyulevich, praporschik
Liza Yankovskaya
Liza Yankovskaya

Tatyana Andreevna Bers, sestra Sofyi Tolstoy
Aleksey Makarov
Aleksey Makarov

Sergey Tolstoy
Anna Mikhalkova
Anna Mikhalkova

Anna Ivanovna, uchitelnitsa nigilistka

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