The Last Station (2009) on Netflix
R20091h 52mBiographyDramaRomance
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's disciple Vladimir Chertkov presses him to leave his writings to the Russian people. His wife Sofya resists, and secretary Valentin Bulgakov is caught in the middle.
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Plot summary
Leo Tolstoy leads the Tolstoyan Movement, which preaches brotherly love, pacifism and a rejection of material wealth and physical love. In 1910, his chief follower, Vladimir Chertkov, hires Valentin Bulgakov as Tolstoy's personal secretary. At the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana, Valentin finds supporters of the cause taking from it only what suits them, and learns of a campaign to deed all of Tolstoy's writings to the people. Tolstoy's wife, the Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, holds that the writings and the income from them are rightfully hers. The dispute pits Chertkov and Tolstoy's daughter Sasha against the Countess. Valentin is left to mediate between them, and he also begins a romance with Masha, one of the Tolstoyans.
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- Christian Gaulas Ivan
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Station (2009)
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- The station of the small German town of Pretzsch stood in for Astapovo, the "last station" of the title. Still a working rural station, it was closed for two weeks so that filming could take place.
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The closing credits carry a real postscript: in 1914, after Tolstoy's death near the Astapovo railway station, the Russian senate reverted the copyrights of his work to Sofya.- The Tolstoy family residence was recreated at the Schloss Stülpe palace near Luckenwalde in Brandenburg, with the rest of the shoot spread across Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, the city of Leipzig and historical locations in Russia.
