Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress, the Queen, 2006) and Christopher Plummer star in this compelling look at the final days of literary icon Leo Tolstoy. Having renounced his title and property, Tolstoy makes plans to donate his royalties to the Russian people, supported by his trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti). Tolstoy's outraged wife wages a one-woman war to challenge her husband's outrageous act of idealism. Co-starring Golden Globe nominee James McAvoy (Atonement) as the novelist's worshipful assistant whose romance with a free-spirited young woman puts Tolstoy's notion of ideal love to the ultimate test.
Director: Michael Hoffman
Producer: Bonnie Arnold
Producer: Chris Curling
Producer: Jens Meurer
Actor: Anne-Marie Duff
Actor: Christopher Plummer
Actor: Helen Mirren
Actor: James McAvoy
Actor: Paul Giamatti
Actor: John Sessions
Actor: Kerry Condon
Actor: Patrick Kennedy