Follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. "Complete original version of the picture, the scenes previously cut out by censors are presented with the original Russian sound and with pertinent subtitles."
General Note: Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, 1968.In Russian, English, and French with subtitles in Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese.Special features include extensive historical, literary, technical, and cultural background, interviews with the cast and crew, and separate documentaries about Sergei Bondarchuk and Leo Tolstoy.Videodisc release of the 1965-1967 motion picture.Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Anatoly Petritski ; Music composed by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.
Participant or Performer Note: Cast: Liudmila Savelieva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Irina Skobtseva, Vassily Lanovoy, Oleg Efremov.