This 3 DVD six-and-a-half-hour set features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen. The book was written in the nineteenth century and gives a graphic insight in to Russian society at the time and is still considered to be one of the greatest novel ever written. This classic film directed by Sergei Bondarachuk is considered to be the most faithful to the original novel and with a combination of amazing large scale battle scenes and intimate character portrayals this film is many peoples' favourite interpretation of Tolstoy's classic novel... The story follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe culminating in the French invasion of Russia in 1812. The evil effects of war are a significant theme and war forms the backdrop as it influences the lives of these families and their many associates.
Academy Award Winner - Best Foreign Film 1968 - This 3 DVD features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen.
In the tumult of Nazi-occupied Rome a sympathetic bootlegger already accustomed to living outside the law opens her home to a trio of escaped Allied prisoners of war an American a Russian and a Briton - jeopardizing her safety and that of her lover for the cause.
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 estim
Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
War and Peace This 3 DVD six-and-a-half-hour set features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen. The book was written in the nineteenth century and gives a graphic insight in to Russian society at the time and is still considered to be one of the greatest novel ever written.
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