War and Peace
1965-67 Soviet film by Sergei Bondarchuk
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7.6The 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, Romance
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
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sergei Bondarchuk
Article
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.