Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ehirerapp Waste of time

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Vihren Mitev I hope that I can make you feel the humble feeling that is lurking from that movie, that can distance you from the noise and the lack of orientation, that make you feel comfortable and feel the good behind which is the true love.Although his life is quite, the connections with the people for Tolstoy are dynamic. What is happening to them is really interesting to him and gives him strength. Trying to give balance to what is happening to him, he follows his heart which he has given to everyone he knew. Spread the love one every parallel in your life like a cobweb and give it to everyone and everything, he is saying. But I know this from somewhere else.This time I write because I also want to share something. Why I know this from somewhere else? Is it normal to you when your cats, came after a big change in your life, put off the shelf several times a book about Lev Tolstoy? So many times that is easier for you to read that book instead of putting it back again? I doubt that. And like it is written in this book – the great writer often make chance to look like necessity, following the good side of his curiosity. I do so too.I have to check what is his astrological sign. And I can not miss saying the name of Mikhail Bulgakov, the metaphor of the train, the last stop and the number of the last train 6009 – the abyss (one for him and one for her) staying between life and man that his true love is away.http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/

Amy Adler In old Russia, a few decades before the revolution, Tolstoy is ill and the end of his days are near. He wants peace more than anything. But, alas, it is fleeting. In his later years, he has developed a philosophy of thrift, charity, and chastity. He has a number of devoted followers, including Cherkhov (Paul Giamatti). Leo wants, especially, to help peasants so he has changed his will. All future royalties from his famous works will be given to the "Russian People". But, this action has thrown him into conflict with his long loyal wife, Sofya (Helen Mirren), the mother of thirteen children. Although she has nothing against charity, she wants the money for her children and her grandchildren, even though they will be provided for comfortably. So, there is a never ending power struggle between Cherkhov and Sofya. To help soothe matters, Cherkhov hires a true believer of Tolstoy's ideas, a man named Valentin (James McAvoy) to be his personal secretary and to keep Sofya at bay. This is called the best laid plans. It doesn't work. First, Valentin finds himself rejecting chastity, even though he has always been strong, in the presence of a lady named Masha, who has given up her former life to do strenuous household chores for Tolstoy. Then, Valentine becomes an unwitting pawn in that he admires both Tolstory and Sofia. Finally, Leo moves out, in the cloak of night, to a location in Southern Russia, an abandoned train station. He takes with him his daughter, doctor, and Cherkhov. Now, perhaps he can die in serenity. Will it be so? This is an outstandingly lovely film about the last days of the great Russian writer Tolstoy. What is now reserved for movie stars and rock singers, a country's adulation, was once given to authors and Tolstoy towered over all others. Also, as one can imagine, he was idolized by the poor as well, so his last breaths were counted by every citizen. In telling this story, writer-director Michael Hoffman has brought a forgotten-by-the-now-generation to vibrancy. The world says thank you. In addition, the cast of Plummer, Mirren, McAvoy, Giamatti, and the rest is topnotch, deserving much praise. Sets and costumes dazzle, too, as does the magnificent photography. Case in point is a scene in which Sofya falls into a pond, to be rescued by Valentin. What a superb set of shots and they are not alone. All in all, The Last Station should not be last on anyone's list of must see films. Go out and find it today.

Robert J. Maxwell It's around 1910 and the world-famous novelist and spiritual anarchist, the ancient Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), is living in a mansion with his wife, children, and a few of his followers. He ought to be happy but in fact what we see is a good-natured but still tortured Tolstoy. Here he is, living like a Roman emperor, while his own philosophy calls for allegiance only to God and peace, not worldly goods, the state, the Church, or self aggrandizement.Not only that, but his Tolstoyan followers want him to relinquish all his copyrights so that his work becomes the property of the people. It makes a certain sense to Tolstoy, but not to his wife Sonya (Helen Mirren). His work is worth more than a million rubles and she wants the money. There's no doubt they love each other but the moral evolution has driven them apart. Tolstoy writes her a loving letter and then leaves for a life of tranquility and solitude in the boondocks. He never quite makes it.Helen Mirren, as the grasping bourgeois who once helped her husband and edited his works, is good, as usual. She can play just about anything by now except maybe a little girl. But it's probably Christopher Plummer's finest performance.There is a scene in which Mirren has called him back home from a trip, claiming to be very ill. She's not. She's just jealous of the attention he gets wherever he goes. Plummer, with his great gray beard preceding him, enters the bedroom to find her sitting up playfully in the sick bed, teasing him about the furious love making of their earlier years, the way she used to play a chicken and he was a rooster. She bounces around cheerfully, full of glee and guile, her lie having been forgotten, and she begins to cluck, begging him to crow the way he used to. Plummer comes up with about the most convincing display of reluctant compliance that I've ever seen, at first brushing her requests aside, then finally yielding, crowing loudly, and jumping onto the bed with Mirren. It's an exquisite scene -- funny, but with disturbing undertones.The rest of the cast are fine. Paul Giamatti, a versatile actor, is very good as the Tolstoyan enthusiast grimly determined to see the fulfillment of the old man's dream. James McAvoy is the young, innocent secretary whose burden it is to be a witness and a marriage counselor in a disintegrating household. His girl friend, who looks splendid in the nude, is Kerry Condon. She's cute and dimpled. She purses her lips and tilts her head in an enchanting manner, and she introduces him to some worldly delights that, as a Tolstoyan ascetic, he had denied himself.The film was shot in Germany and Russia but, man, the photography and location shooting are convincingly Russian. The forests are of larch interspersed among evergreens, and the air is alive with mosquitoes bred in the marshland. The musical score is sparse and appropriate. The film may bore some people. Nobody's head gets wrenched off. But the central issue -- collectivism versus individualism -- is timeless. Nice job.

frankopy-2 During a time when epic films are no longer tempting enough for the teens for whom Hollywood now makes its films, "The Last Station" is s grand reminder of what once was. Had the moguls of the past gotten in on its promotion in the way studios once did, we'd be talking, perhaps, in terms of "Laurence..." or "Zhivago." Alas, this film contains no zinging rockets, let alone even one vampire. Tolstoy? Uh...when's the next "Tron 12" being unspooled? Dealing with the demise of the epic writer Leo Tolstoy and his life with an incomparable wife, "Station" is fetching to see, beautifully written and directed, and in the hands of leads Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren, compelling. The film deals exquisitely with whom Tolstoy knew he was, as well as what others thought he was. In any case, he was veritably the essence of Russian writing. See this; relish in it. Marvel at the life Plummer and Mirren inject into well-defined characters, and enjoy, too, the work of James McAvoy and Paul Giammati.