THE LAST STATION (2009)

After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya, Leo Tolstoy’s devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times by hand!—suddenly finds her security threatened. For the sake of his newly created religion and in the final year of his life, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, copyrights, property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and celibacy. Sparks fly! Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren are extraordinary as Tolstoy and his one minute loving and one minute raging mate, and the story is both riviting and moving.