The Tolstoy Defence

September. 06,2018      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Alexey Smirnov as  Grigoriy Apollonovich Kolokoltsev, porochik
Philipp Gurevich as  Vasily Stepanovich Shabunin, rotnyi pisar
Evgeny Kharitonov as  Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Irina Gorbacheva as  Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, zhena Lva
Łukasz Simlat as  Kazimir Bronislavovich Yatsevich, kapitan, komandir roty
Sergey Umanov as  Aleksandr Matveyevich Stasyulevich, praporschik
Elizaveta Yankovskaya as  Tatyana Andreevna Bers, sestra Sofyi Tolstoy
Aleksey Makarov as  Sergey Tolstoy
Anna Mikhalkova as  Anna Ivanovna, uchitelnitsa nigilistka
Igor Zolotovitsky as  Nikolay Ilyich, upravlyayuchi

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