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Find Interview: Michael Hoffman discusses The Last Station
4 January 2010 2:58 PM, PST
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Writer/director Michael Hoffman has made a
diverse bunch of movies, from the quirky comedy Soapdish to the
romantic comedy One
Fine Day to his take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now he
has tackled the final days of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, based on the novel
by Jay Parini. It took Hoffman nearly two decades for the stars to align on the
picture, which was originally to star Meryl Streep as Sofya Tolstoy and Anthony
Hopkins as the Russian novelist during his final days when he and his wife
fought bitterly over his loyalty to his cult of followers and the fate of his
estate. When financing for the
film came through from Germany and Russia, Hoffman was able to assemble Academy
Award ® winner Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer as his leads
with James McAvoy as Tolstoy's secretary, a key character in the film. Although
filming in Russia,
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