News > Mirren to Play Tolstoy's Wife in Last Station

Written by David Morgan

Helen Mirren is apparently set to play Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy, wife of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, in a film called Last Station. The plot is not apparent yet, though Liz Smith of Variety has her speculations:

The film is to be called Last Station and I would suppose deals with the writer running away from home in his dotage because his wife was denying him sexual favors. He died in a railway station.

Could be. The title could also refer to the stations of the cross, but then again, I don't know that Christian anarchists like Tolstoy take much stock in such traditionally Catholic/Anglican icons.