Story about the writer of War And Peace, Count Leo Tolstoy.
A Russian man who was highly respected around 1910 being a celebrated writer & philosopher.
Michael Hoffman is the director.
The rating is 6.8/10 in rotten tomatoes.
Leo Tolstoy, by Christopher Plummer, was seen as a saint during that time.
A movement was named after him, whose basic tenets are brotherly love & world peace through pacifism, & a denouncement of material wealth & physical love.
His wife, Countess Sofya, by Helen Mirren, was all against him & his disciples.
She strongly believed they were trying to plot him to give up the family property.
She insisted on a will that will bring wealth & profit to the family as Chertkov was arranging & persuading Tolstoy into authorising the negation of his work's copyrights & put his writings in public domain.
Valentin Bulgakov, hired by Chertkov, was supposed to help carry out & write down the details of the process, stuck in between as he did not know which to follow anymore-his orders or his heart.
They believed Tolstoy was supposed to be devoted to the good of mankind & that only.
Pacifism.
The funniest scene in the movie was when Tolstoy's chief follower, Vladimir Chertkov could not accept when Leo killed a mosquito.
They believe in every living being's right.
Freedom of desire & will.
Crazy guys are all celibates & vegetarians.
Finally Tolstoy could not take his wife, Countess Sofya's ridiculous & extreme attitude.
Left to seek for peace in his final days.
The countess attempted to kill herself when she found out.
Tolstoy died in a room near a train station Astapovo, in southern Russia.
Married for 48 years & still in love with each other.
The Russian senate awarded Countess Sofya the copyrights of Tolstoy's work when he died.
Valentin Bulgakov, acted by James McAvoy, the guy in Wanted, roled as Tolstoy's private secretary, experienced love for the 1st time in his life.
Did not know how love & lust felt like.
Fell in the love with Masha, a brave & rebellious woman in the movement.
Became a famous & outspoken speaker, spreading Tolstoy's beliefs.
Watching this type of movie is always decent.
Everyone was so strong-minded, persistent & brave enough to love & die.
As if they hold on to a single belief for their whole lives & always seem to think it's worth everything they could have lost in the world.
How do you know when it's enough & you know you can't stop fighting?
When you close your eyes & know everything you're fighting for is about to worth nothing.
What is left to make you feel you're being seen?
When everyone thinks you're so perfect & invulnerable.
And you wish, there's something more you could do, without knowing the world might be ending.
When social equity & peace for mankind were the only concerns.
When you think the last station is never reachable.
Until you think your life has been worth living.
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