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Christopher Plummer was 80 during the filming, just 2 years younger than Tolstoy was in the period depicted in the film.
The director Michael Hoffman really liked the fact that Christopher Plummer (I)' could play his own age.
читать дальшеComposer Sergei Yevtushenko wrote the entire score after reading the sсript and before filming had started.
Michael Hoffman rejected it on principle but after several months, several composers and other
attempts to score the film, he realized that Yevtushenko's score was perfect for the film.
Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer replaced Meryl Streep and Anthony Hopkins,
who were originally scheduled to play the roles of Sofya and Leo Tolstoy.
Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff, who play mother and daughter in the film, have both portrayed
Queen Elizabeth I (Mirren in Elizabeth I and Duff in The Virgin Queen).
Marks the first joint venture of real-life spouses James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff on a feature film.
Michael Hoffman was traveling in Italy by train when he bought a copy of the novel to read on the journey.
James McAvoy was cast on the strength of his performance in The Last King of Scotland.
McAvoy agreed to do the film immediately after reading the screenplay.
There still is a real Tolstoy family, who live in Yasnaya Polyana in Russia.
This film was made with their support and they like the film.
During the meal outside, when Sofya Tolstoy stops the gramophone from playing Tolstoy's speech,
she plays an excerpt from Act IV of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
The excerpt, which causes Tolstoy to remark "that's better" and cease walking away,
is where the Countess forgives the Count for his various misdemeanors during the course of the opera.
When Sofya comes to The Last Station she remarks that Lev is sleeping with the devil,
referring to Chertkov. The name Chert actually means "devil" in Russian.
One of Michael Hoffman's biggest challenges was to turn clean and orderly Germany into messy and chaotic Russia.
Countess Sofya bore Tolstoy 13 children and copied out six drafts of his novel "War and Peace" - by hand.