The Last StationAfter almost a half century of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren) is perhaps not unreasonably affronted when her husband, author Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), decides to renounce his aristocratic title and bequeath his worldly goods not to the thirteen children she has borne him, but to the Russian people.
A young acolyte, Valentin (James McAvoy), strays into the crossfire as Sofya deploys an arsenal of feminine wiles to protect her family's interests from the scheming Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), Tolstoy's trusted disciple.
Mirren blazes across the screen in a full-blooded performance that in addition to a highly merited Oscar nomination, also garnered the Best Actress prize at the Rome Film Festival.
"Beautifully crafted, and sensationally well acted, it overflows with romance, heart and intelligence" Daily Mail
