Leo Tolstoy - Turner Classic Movies

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Birth Place

Tul'skaya oblast', RU

Born

August 28, 1828

Died

November 20, 1910

Filmography

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Two Jacks (2013)

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Anna Karenina (2012)

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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)

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Paha maa (2006)

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Quale Amore (2006)

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Ivans XTC. (2000)

From Short Story ("The Death Of Ivan Illyich")

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Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Has Not Promised Thyself...

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Two Jacks (2013)

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Anna Karenina (2012)

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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)

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Paha maa (2006)

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Quale Amore (2006)

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Ivans XTC. (2000)

From Short Story ("The Death Of Ivan Illyich")

San Michele Aveva un Gallo (1998)

From Short Story

San Michele Aveva un Gallo (1998)

Father, Santa Claus Has Died (1992)

Night Sun (1990)

Book As Source Material

La Sonata a Kreutzer (1985)

From Story ("The Kreutzer Sonata")

L'argent (1983)

From Story ("The False Note")

Otietz Sergii (1978)

From Book "Otietz Sergeii" ("Father Sergius")

Zhivoi Trup (1929)

From Play "Zhivoi Trup ("The Living Corpse")

Der Mensch Am Wege (1923)

Otets Sergey (1918)

From Book "Otietz Sergeii" ("Father Sergius")

Music (Feature Film)

The White Countess (2005)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Risurrezione (2001)

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Anna Karenina (1997)

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Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

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Kreutzerova Sonata (1987)

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Anna Karenina (1985)

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Anna Karenina (1975)

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War and Peace Part III: The Year 1812 (1966)

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War and Peace Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1966)

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War and Peace Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)

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War and Peace Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)

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Anna Karenina (1948)

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Misc. Crew (Special)

Resurrection (1971)

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Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Anna Karenina (2000)

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Life Events

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Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian Still in the opening scene, Russian playboy Fedya (John Gilbert) revels with his Gypsy friends, especially Renée Adorée as Masha, when he’s distracted by Lisa (Eleanor Boardman) and old friend Victor (Conrad Nagel), in MGM’s Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Has Not Promised Thyself... Director Fred Niblo clinging to silent-film conventions, shifting from a fledgling pre-revolutionary Russian romance to a high Orthodox wedding, in a lofty MGM soundstage, John Gilbert as rogue Fedya and Eleanor Boardman as smitten Lisa, in Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.

War And Peace (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Almost Never Smiles At the country home of the Rostov’s, friend Pierre (Henry Fonda) urges mourning Prince Andrei (Mel Ferrer) to move past his grief, though he resists, then he overhears Natasha (Audrey Hepburn), speaking about him, in the Paramount 1956 treatment of Tolstoy’s War And Peace.

War And Peace (1956) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Do It For Nothing At the Moscow home of Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine), in a scene modified from Tolstoy, betting Anatol (Vittorio Gassman) he can complete the stunt, to be followed by Pierre (Henry Fonda), until Prince Andrei (Mel Ferrer) intervenes, in King Vidor’s Italian-made Paramount production, War And Peace, 1956.

War And Peace (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Marching Away To Fight Opening scene, King Vidor directing at Cinecittà in Rome, in the Dino De Laurentis/Carlo Ponti production for Paramount, we meet Henry Fonda as an unusually dashing Pierre, with his friends the Rostovs, Barry Jones as Count Ilya, Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, in War And Peace, 1956.

Black Sabbath (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Il Wurdalak Following the Boris Karloff introduction of the third episode in the Italian anthology, invoking eastern Europe and vampires, director Mario Bava finds American actor Mark Damon as Count Vladimir making nasty discoveries in the countryside, in Black Sabbath, 1964.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Choose To Misunderstand Me Director Clarence Brown with a scene perhaps as Tolstoy imagined it, title character (Greta Garbo) confronted by her analytical husband Karenin (Basil Rathbone) in MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) An Evil Omen Hollywood Tolstoy, as Vronsky (Fredric March) meets his mother (May Robson) and Greta Garbo (title character) makes her first appearance, at the train station, her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) attending and much foreboding, in producer David O. Selznick and MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) General Officers! From Tolstoy, Vronsky (Fredric March) leads military colleagues in a demanding Russian drinking game, an early scene from MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935, directed by Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo in the title role.

Anna Karenina (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Russia's Affairs Do Not Require Both Of Us Complex Tolstoy tensions emerge as Anna (Vivien Leigh) dines with her distracted husband Karenin (Ralph Richardson) in Alexander Korda's 1947 production of Anna Karenina.

Anna Karenina (1947) -- (Movie Clip) For The Polonaise Kitty (Sally Ann Howes) is stricken as Vronsky (Kieron Moore) forgets his dance card while in the thrall of Anna (Vivien Leigh) at the Meskov's ball in Alexander Korda's Anna Karenina, 1947, from the Tolstoy novel.

Anna Karenina (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Every Unhappy Family Opening credits followed by chastened Stiva (Hugh Dempster) awakening on the couch, with Tolstoy's opening words emphasized, in Alexander Korda's 1947 production of Anna Karenina, starring Vivien Leigh.

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