The Tolstoy Defence (2018)
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.
- Released
- 2018-09-06
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Avdotya Smirnova, Avdotya Smirnova, Anna Parmas, Pavel Basinsky
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 20 votes
Cast
- 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
- Liza 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
- Andrey Smirnov as Apollon Kolokoltsev, general
- Gennadiy Smirnov as Pyotr Alekseevich Yunosha, polkovnik