Overview
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Cast
- Sergei Gerasimov as Lev Tolstoi
- Tamara Makarova as Sofya Andreyevna
- Aleksey Petrenko as Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
- Viktor Proskurin as Andrei Lvovich
- Nikolay Eryomenko as Aleksandr Borisovich Goldenveizer
- Bořivoj Navrátil as Dushan Petrovich Makovitsky
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Aleksandra Lyvovna
- Konstantin Grigorev as Merchant
- Marina Tarasova
- Lyubov Polekhina