The Tolstoy Defence
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.
Avdotya Smirnova
Casts & Crew
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 Rytsareva
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
Maksim Plekhanov
Nikolay Yakovlev
Aleksey Puchkov
Lev Letov
Daniel Getmanskaya
Artemiy Padalka
Leonid Korolyov
Oleg Levakov
Valeriya Bugaichuk
Kirill Orlov
Sergey Korenkov
Sergey Chetvertkov
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