'Zola' is a Modern Black Fairytale
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.
Lev Tolstoy
This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
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This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Sergei Gerasimov
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Runtime:168 minutes
Studio:Gorky Film Studios, Slovenská filmová tvorba
Cast
Sergei Gerasimov
Director
Sergei Gerasimov
Lev Tolstoi
Tamara Makarova
Sofya Andreyevna
Aleksey Petrenko
Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
Viktor Proskurin
Andrei Lvovich
Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksandr Borisovich Goldenveizer
Bořivoj Navrátil
Dushan Petrovich Makovitsky
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Aleksandra Lyvovna
Konstantin Grigorev
Merchant
Marina Tarasova
Lyubov Polekhina
Yan Yanakiyev
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