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4/25/2010

Event Start Date End Date Time Location
"The Last Station" Film Screening 4/25/2010 4/25/2010 6:00PM Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Avenue

The final years of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy comes to the screen withChristopher Plummer in the lead role and Helen Mirren portraying his wife, Sofya. Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, and Anne-Marie Duff co-star. After almost fifty years of marriage, Sofya finds her life turned upside down when her famous husband renounces his noble title, property and his family in favor of the new politics of socialism fostered by his friend Chertkov. She must marshal all her strength and guile to protect her family and her husband’s legacy. This is a complex, funny, rich and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.