View and discuss outstanding foreign films.
Discussion led by Maurizio Giammarco, Ph.D.,
instructor at Temple University in the Intellectual Heritage Program
The Last Station (American - 112 minutes - R)
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is rightfully hers
