The Tolstoy Defence

    The Tolstoy Defence
    2018

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Alexey SmirnovGrigoriy Apollonovich Kolokoltsev, porochik
    • Philipp GurevichVasily Stepanovich Shabunin, rotnyi pisar
    • Evgeny KharitonovLev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
    • Irina GorbachevaSofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, zhena Lva
    • Łukasz SimlatKazimir Bronislavovich Yatsevich, kapitan, komandir roty
    • Sergey UmanovAleksandr Matveyevich Stasyulevich, praporschik
    • Elizaveta YankovskayaTatyana Andreevna Bers, sestra Sofyi Tolstoy
    • Aleksey MakarovSergey Tolstoy
    • Anna MikhalkovaAnna Ivanovna, uchitelnitsa nigilistka
    • Igor ZolotovitskyNikolay Ilyich, upravlyayuchi

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