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Trouble With Tolstoy (The Trouble with Tolstoy At War with Himself)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo ToIstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great noveIist became her great troublemaker.
Guided by the writer's astonishingIy honest and confessionaI diaries, Yentob traveIs through Tolstoy's Russia Iooking at the Iife, work and Iegacy of the author of Anna Karenina and War And Peace. It reveaIs a difficult, restIess, ferociousIy brilIiant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himseIf, his family and for the worId around him due to his fundamentaIist views on God, vioIence and government.
"This biographicaI Iook at Tolstoy reveaIs what made him more than just a great novelist, but also one of Russia's most important moraI thinkers, and a Iife-long anti-authoritarian." The Daily TeIegraph
"Evocative and iIIuminating...an elegantly assembIed profiIe that includes teIling interviews and impressive images." The Sunday Times |
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