To commemorate the centennial of Leo Tolstoy’s death and venerate his force as a player on the world’s stage, the department of Russian and Slavic Studies is hosting a film series on select Wednesdays ...

Wiseman, best known for his documentaries, offers the Venice competition a rare scripted work with Nathalie Boutefeu playing Sophia Tolstoy. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Actor Nathalie ...

Frederick Wiseman set aside the documentaries he’s known for to work on “A Couple,” a solo drama putting Leo Tolstoy’s much-burdened wife at its center. By Nicolas Rapold “I work without respite,” ...

A film centered on the life of Russian author Leo Tolstoy might sound beyond literary to many, perhaps even ponderous. But "The Last Station" is unlike any Tolstoy story previously told, closer to a ...

The film tells a real story about the last two years of the life of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and about the national mourning over his death.

When the young Tolstoy disciple Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy) arrives at the great Russian writer's country estate, Yasnaya Polyana, he has no idea of the pitched battle he's descending into. On ...