Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

2007•30m•10.0/10

DocumentaryHistory

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10.0/10(1)

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

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Production

Cloverland Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

A.N. Wilson

A.N. Wilson

Self - Tolstoy Biographer

Nicholas Warner

Self - Prof. of Literature, Claremont McKenna College

Nikolai Tolstoy

Himself - Author of "The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History"

Harris Wofford

Himself - Former U.S. Senator, PA; Advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Self (archive footage)

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