Leo Tolstoy come alive on the silver screen

20 and 21 November 2010, the day of the centenary of the death of Leo Tolstoy, is scheduled for release in the rental of art and documentary project Leo Tolstoy: living genius. The film, created from the restored newsreel material, taken a century ago, is preparing to be shown as a special event in the film center around the world. The "Leo Tolstoy: living genius" intended for a global audience, tells the real story of the last two years of living Russian writer, tells the story of his death, funeral, and about the national mourning over his death . The film is based on unique original movie newsreel material, taken a century ago, and now carefully stored in the Russian State Archive of Cinema-Documentary photographs (RGAKFD, Krasnogorsk). With the development of digital technologies, allowed the restoration of an array of documentaries, to use her artistic purposes in public for the first time so close to the great Leo Tolstoy and deeply immersed in the dramatic details of the last years of his life.