Fresh
Frequently gorgeous, occasionally dull, always fascinating.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
War and Peace
Greatest motion picture ever made! Romance ever lived! Adventure story written!
1966 · 7h 2m · GP
Drama, History, Romance, War
Directed by
Sergei Bondarchuk
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War and Peace
Overview
The 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.
Director and cast
- Sergei Bondarchuk Director
- Ludmila Savelyeva as Natasha Rostova
- Sergei 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
- Nikolay Kodin as Petya Rostov
- Sergei Yermilov as Petya Rostov
- Irina Gubanova as Sonya
- Anatoli Ktorov as Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Exhaustive, spectacular, often dazzling in its ambition and faithfulness to Tolstoy, the movie is still regarded as one of the wonders of epic cinema.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
This is the barbaric yawp of the Soviet film industry circa 1968, an entertainment A-bomb test announcing to the world: 'Here is what we are capable of.'
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Fresh
Considering its cost and the vast effort that went into its making, such a film can be made only once in our time. The wonder, indeed, is that it was made at all.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Though it can be bombastic and mind-numbing, it's often lively and eye filling.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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