The Tolstoy Defence

Sep 6, 2018

1h 52m

★ 7.1

Overview

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Algous studio

Studio Globus

CTB Film Company

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Cast

Grigoriy Apollonovich Kolokoltsev, porochik

Alexey Smirnov

Vasily Stepanovich Shabunin, rotnyi pisar

Philipp Gurevich

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Evgeny Kharitonov

Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, zhena Lva

Irina Gorbacheva

Kazimir Bronislavovich Yatsevich, kapitan, komandir roty

Łukasz Simlat

Aleksandr Matveyevich Stasyulevich, praporschik

Sergey Umanov

Tatyana Andreevna Bers, sestra Sofyi Tolstoy

Liza Yankovskaya

Sergey Tolstoy

Aleksey Makarov

Anna Ivanovna, uchitelnitsa nigilistka

Anna Mikhalkova

Nikolay Ilyich, upravlyayuchi

Igor Zolotovitsky

Apollon Kolokoltsev, general

Andrey Smirnov

Pyotr Alekseevich Yunosha, polkovnik

Gennadiy Smirnov

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