War and Peace

Sergey Bondarchuk, 1966

Spine #983

Picked by 2 guests

History / Romance / War / Drama

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Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk

Written by Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov

Cinematography Aleksandr Shelenkov, Anatoly Petritsky, Yu-Lan Chen

Edited by Tatiana Likhacheva, Elena Sourajskaïa, Ludmila Savelyeva

Cast Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Golovko, Oleg Tabakov, Sergei Yermilov, Irina Gubanova

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Maya and Ethan Hawke actor

“I have been wanting to show you this my whole life in fact I've brought this on 19 vacations and you guys never wanted to watch it's so good oh watch this War and Peace amazing I mean and it's animated no it's not animated just joking the cover War and Peace yeah you can get confused here at Criterion cuz the posters are so beautiful.”

Maya and Ethan Hawke

Roger Corman producer

“Here is the Russian film of War and Peace. This is one of the greatest film adaptations of a novel in my opinion ever made. The way Bondarchuk photographed those battle scenes going on into the distance in long shots and then cutting to individual shots as you took in the concept of the grandeur of the forthcoming battle and the beginning of the battle and then brought you in to the terror of the real battle is brilliant.”

Roger Corman