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In Russian with English subtitles. Also known as The Death of Leo Tolstoy. A 2-DVD set.
Director and lead actor Sergei Gerasimov has focused on the last days of Leo Tolstoy's life in his homage to the great Russian author. Tolstoy was taken with a rustic mysticism, and was even more dedicated to helping the peasants (he wrote a reading primer for them earlier). He
spent much of his life maintaining a deep faith in God and advocating a resistance to "evil," the resistance of a pacifist since he promoted non-violence as his personal creed. In his last days, he and his wife have disagreements, and he finds an outlet for his intellectual ruminations
with his own physician. Tolstoy's last days are covered in this film like a stack of separate note cards that are picked up and laid down one at a time, each examined for its own content.
