Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American and Latin American rights to director Michael Hoffman’s historical drama about Leo Tolstoy, "The Last Station," the studio announced Saturday.
Made with the support of the Tolstoy family, the film tells the story of the last days of the famed Russian writer.
When a young intellectual (James McAvoy) arrives at the rural estate of Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) in 1910, he finds himself caught up in a power struggle between Tolstoy’s wife, Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), and the conniving leader of a Utopian society (Paul Giamatti) begun by the writer himself. They’re fighting over how Tolstoy’s literary estate will be handled after his death.