War and Peace

Also known as Vojna i mir

1965-67 Soviet film by Sergei Bondarchuk

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The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Released: 1968-04-28422 minDir: Sergey BondarchukHistory, Drama, War, RomanceBudget: $700MBox office: $14.0M

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Cast

Ludmila Savelyeva as Natasha Rostova
Sergey Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Andrei Bolkonsky
Viktor Stanitsyn as Ilya Andreyevich Rostov
Kira Golovko as Countess Rostova
Oleg Tabakov as Nikolai Rostov

Themes

napoleon bonaparte
napoleonic wars
war of 1812
historical drama
19th century
historical epic
romantic drama

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Ratings

IMDb

8.3/10

8,619 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Year: 1965
Runtime: 373 min
Genres: Drama, Romance, War
Rated: GP
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 3 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by: Sergei Bondarchuk
Screenplay by: Sergei Bondarchuk Vasily Solovyov
Based on: War and Peace , by Leo Tolstoy
Produced by: Viktor Tsirgiladze Nikolai Ivanov G. Meyerovich V. Krivonoschenko
Starring: Sergei Bondarchuk Ludmila Savelyeva Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Cinematography: Anatoly Petritsky Yu-Lan Chen Alexander Shelenkov
Edited by: Tatiana Likhacheva
Music by: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Distributed by: Mosfilm
Release dates: July 1965 ( 1965-07 ) ( 4th Moscow International Film Festival ) 14 March 1966 ( 1966-03-14 ) (Part I) 20 July 1966 ( 1966-07-20 ) (Part II) 21 July 1967 ( 1967-07-21 ) (Part III) 4 November 1967 ( 1967-11-04 ) (Part IV)
Running time: Part I: 147 minutes Part II: 100 minutes Part III: 84 minutes Part IV: 100 minutes Total: 431 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian French German
Budget: 8,291,712 Rbls (US$9.2 million)
Box office: 58,000,000 Rbls (USSR estimate)

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Encyclopedic overview

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir) is a 1965–1967 Soviet epic war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel. Released in four installments throughout 1965 and 1967, the film starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.

The film was produced by the Mosfilm studios between 1961 and 1967, with considerable support from the Soviet authorities and the Soviet Army which provided hundreds of horses and over ten thousand soldiers as extras. At a cost of 8.29 million Rbls (equal to US$ 9.21 million at 1967 rates, or $60–70 million in 2019, accounting for rouble inflation) it was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union.

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