War and Peace
by Sergei Bondarchuk
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Actor: Boris Zakhava, Gennadi Ivanov, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav TikhonovDirector: Sergei Bondarchuk
Writer: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cinematographer: Anatoli Petritsky
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Shelenkov
Editor: Tatyana Likhachyova
Writer: Vasili Solovyov
Writer: Leo Tolstoy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 403 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Kultur
Movie Reviews of War and Peace
Movie Review: War and Peace - Russian version
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Russian version of "War and Peace" from you, a 3-DVD boxed set. The work is magnificent, on the massive scale one seldom sees nowadays. True to Tolstoy in every respect, a viewing pleasure of rare proportions. The actors play their parts with consummate skill, so much so that they imprint themselves on to your memory. Anyone who has a sense of history - not merely of Napoleonic-era history - should see this film and derive from it the degree of pleasure that I and my family derived from it. Bill (Australia)
Summary of War and Peace
War and Peace is a portrait of Russia and her people, caught up in the swirling and irresistible tides of history during the Napoleonic Era. Director Sergei Bondarchuk's Oscar-winner flawlessly re-creates Tolstoy's epic masterpiece, capturing not only the most minute historical details, but also the emotion, essence, and atmosphere of the classic novel. Hailed as the definitive marriage between literature and film, it took five years to complete, costing over $100,000,000. It is estimated that a film of this magnitude would cost over 1 billion dollars today, making this the most expensive film ever made. In Russian with English subtitles.Like Tolstoy's novel, this epic-length War and Peace is rough going, but worth the effort. Winner of the 1969 Academy Award? for Best Foreign Language Film and widely considered the most faithful adaptation of Tolstoy's classic, Sergei Bondarchuk's massive Soviet-Italian coproduction was seven years in the making, at a record-setting cost of $100 million. Bondarchuk himself plays the central role of Pierre Bezukhov, buffeted by fate during Russia's tumultuous Napoleonic Wars, serving as pawn and philosopher through some of the most astonishing set pieces ever filmed. Bondarchuk is a problematic director: interior monologues provide awkward counterpoint to intimate dramas, weaving together the many classes and characters whose lives are permanently affected by war. Infusions of '60s-styled imagery clash with the film's period detail; it's an anomalous experiment that doesn't really work. Undeniably, however, the epic battle scenes remain breathtakingly unique; to experience the sheer scale of this film is to realize that such cinematic extravagance will never be seen again. --Jeff Shannon
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