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A Question of Faith: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

[Starring] Harry Andrews as Tolstoy, Alan Dobie as Ivan Ilyich
also starring Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie

A sudden waking in the night, the presence of something in an empty room-what is it? The voice of despair? ...or death?

Starting from that key experience in the life of the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, this film explores Tolstoy's beliefs, his 'conversion', the havoc of his love life, and his concern with death - as seen through a dramatisation of his celebrated story The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Colin Nears
Pianist:
Patrick Harvey
Photography:
John Else
Designer:
Bernard Lloyd-Jones
Film Editor:
Angus Newton
Executive Producer:
Bill Morton
The Tolstoy Sequences - Tolstoy:
Harry Andrews
The Tolstoy Sequences - Sergei:
Patrick Stewart
The Tolstoy Sequences - Tatyana:
Ingrid Hafner
The Tolstoy Sequences - Sofya Andreyevna:
Annette Crosbie
The Tolstoy Sequences - Ilya:
-Jim Norton
The Tolstoy Sequences - [Actor]:
David Cole
The Tolstoy Sequences - [Actor]:
Timothy Stark
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Ivanych:
Jonathan Newth
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Gerasim:
Tony Meyer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Yekaterina Nikolayevna:
Joan Ogden
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Ivan Yegorovich:
Roy Spencer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Marya Sergeyevna:
Susan Field
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Mikhail Mikhailovich:
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Petrovich:
Robin Halstead
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Lisa Ivanovna:
Fiona Fullerton
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Volodya:
Clifford Abrahams
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Anna Petrovna:
Rosemary Leach
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Mikhail Danilovich:
John Gabriel
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Priest:
Alfred Hoffman
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Ivan Ilyich:
Alan Dobie
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Clerk:
Eric Francis
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
Iain Rattray
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
George Romanov
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
Diane Daniels
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - The Voice:
John Moffatt
Narration:
Michael Smee
Source: Radio Times

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