The Tolstoy Defence
2018 · Movie · 113 min
★ 6.5(19)unSUB Rating
The true story of an innocent soldier charged with a crime whose only hope to avoid a military execution is an esteemed count’s defense of his case.
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Details
- Original title
- История одного назначения
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-09-06
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 113 min
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.1/10 (19 votes)
Themes
- russian history
- soldiers of the russian empire
Awards & recognition
- Nika Award — Best Costume Design · 2019
Cast & crew
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
Directed by Avdotya Smirnova