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Feb 05, 2010
Out of Frame: The Last Station
At the end of his life, Russian author Leo Tolstoy (played here by an impressively bewhiskered Christopher Plummer) was a huge celebrity in his native land and inspired the fervent dedication of a group who followed his philosophies and teachings, calling themselves Tolstoyans. As portrayed in director Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, one gets the sense of the group — those that settled on a plot of land near Tolstoy’s own home, anyway —…