WAR AND PEACE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, director Sergei Bondarchuk conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power. As a statement of Soviet cinema’s might, War and Peace succeeded wildly, garnering the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and setting a new standard for epic moviemaking.
• Cast: Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava, Anatoli Ktorov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Antonina Shuranova, Oleg Tabakov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Irina Skobtseva, Boris Smirnov, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Kira Golovko, Irina Gubanova, Aleksandr Borisov, Oleg Efremov, Giuli Chokhonelidze, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Trofimov, Jean-Claude Ballard, Nikolay Rybnikov, Eduard Martsevich, Nikolai Tolkachyov, Elena Tyapkina, Sergei Yermilov, Nonna Mordyukova, Mikhail Khrabrov, Vasiliy Badayev, Pyotr Savin, Semyon Svashenko, Viktor Murganov, Sergey Nikonenko, Daniil Netrebin, Aleksey Glazyrin, Nikolai Khryashchikov, Vladimir Prikhodko, D. Sivakov, N. Sorokin, A. Boldyrev, Aleksandr Degtyar, Aleksey Bakhar, Ivan Zhevago, Galina Kravchenko, Nikolay Grinko, Stanislav Chekan, V. Sofronov, Janis Grantins, Lev Polyakov, Dzhemma Firsova, Klavdiya Polovikova, Herberts Zommers, Ervin Knausmyuller, Andrey Smirnov, D. Eizental, Aleksandr Smirnov, Nikolai Bubnov, Georgiy Millyar, Boris Molchanov, Nikolai Aparin, Iya Arepina, Aleksandr Barushnoy, Boris Batashev, Mikhail Bocharov, Larisa Borisenko, Yuri Chekulayev, Robert Chumak, Yuliya Dioshi, Marina Dobrovolskaya, Aleksandr Fadeyev, Yuriy Grigorev, Mariya Kapnist, Iosif Kolin, Aleksandr Komissarov, Svetlana Konovalova, Georgiy Kurovskiy, Labina, Nikolay Lebedev, Yuri Leonidov, Tatyana Makhova, Viktor Matisen, Vasiliy Matov, Leonid Nedovich, Aleksandr Ponomarenko, Norman Rose, Aleksey Sezeman, Nikolay Sibeikin, Aleksei Smirnov, Zoya Smirnova-Nemirovich, Yelena Stroyeva, Andrei Syomin, Leonid Vidavskiy, Mikhail Vorobyov, Lyudmila Davydova, G. Ivanov, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Levon Sharafyan, Vasiliy Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy
• Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
• Runtime: 7:02
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Mosfilm Studios, Janus Films
• Media Format: Movie