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Euro financed. Written, produced & directed by American Michael Hoffman . . .

Posted by Harmonia on March 5, 2010 at 18:38:51:
..born in Hawaii, graduated new Payette High, Payette, ID, and graduated from exotic Boise State University. The boy had early pretensions, however - he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he did help found the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Plus John Schlesinger was one of his early mentors.
So the person who cared enough to adapt Jay Parini's novel into a film was not a German or Russian auteur living 3500 miles across the big pond but an American from right here in the good ol' USA. Parini was born and raised in that exotic enclave of continental culture, Scranton, PA.
The Last Station did have German and Russian financing - you're right about that.
And Mirren is marvelous in it.
Hoffman is director of two of my favorite underrated movies of all time, 1995's Restoration, a gorgeous film starring an excellent Robert Downey & David Thewlis (and a very miscast Meg Ryan) and Soapdish, an hilarious ensemble send up that was one of the funniest comedies of the last 20 years.