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The project was launched in July 2022 with the support of the Internet
Development Institute.
The iconographic material for the film was L.N. Tolstoy's lifetime
stereophotographs.
The film is organized around the inner monologue of L.N.Tolstoy, recreated on
the basis of his diary entries of the last thirty years of his life and
fragments of the writer's writings, forming a thematic unity. They are connected
by the constantly recurring thoughts of this period of Tolstoy: What is life
for? How to respond to evil? Where does technological progress lead? How can a
person become free? Being presented as Tolstoy's inner speech, the recordings
introduce an existential drama, show Tolstoy's thinker, first of all, as a
person in that collision where Tolstoy is fighting with himself, where he is
contradictory and escapes.
Tolstoy's personality appears "from the inside" - in the flow of inner speech,
and "from the outside", the way he is seen by spiritually close people - his
daughter and M.Gorky. The alternation of Tolstoy's view of the world and the
view directed at Tolstoy, internal and external, highlights the complexity of
the writer's personality, the gap between him and the world, which he seeks to
fill with texts and activities. The apogee of the discord is the anniversary
year of the writer, when he delivers the manifesto "I cannot be silent."
All shooting of game reconstruction scenes in Yasnaya Polyana, where family
members and visiting guests are present, is carried out with a subjective
camera, from Tolstoy's position and vision, which allows you to turn, if
necessary, to his inner speech.
About the filming in the article
"Leo Tolstoy
on the other side of the stereokino",
published in the magazine "World of Cinema Technology"
3D version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh_fbChZ9Y
