Movielogr
The Tolstoy Defence (2018)
Directed by Avdotya Smirnova
Overview
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.
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Alexey Smirnov | Philipp Gurevich | Evgeny Kharitonov | Irina Gorbacheva | Łukasz Simlat | Sergey Umanov | Elizaveta Yankovskaya | Aleksey Makarov | Anna Mikhalkova | Igor Zolotovitsky | Andrey Smirnov | Gennadiy Smirnov | Kirill Vasilyev | Anna Rycareva | Tatyana Kolganova | Anna Parmas | Olga Albanova | Andrei Proshkin | Leonid Alimov | Daniil Shigapov | Aleksandr Zavyalov | Vladislav Ulanov | Konstantin Shelestun | Vadim Skvirskiy | Gleb Syshko | Sergey Rost | Kirill Syomin | Ekaterina Efimova | Maxim Plekhanov | Nikolay Yakovlev | Aleksey Puchkov | Lev Letov | Daniel Getmanskaya | Artemiy Padalka | Leonid Korolyov | Oleg Levakov | Valeriya Bugaichuk | Kirill Orlov | Sergey Korenkov | Sergey Chetvertkov