Directed by:
Sergei Fyodorovich BondarchukScreenplay:
Sergei Fyodorovich BondarchukComposer:
Vyacheslav OvchinnikovPlots(1)
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. (Criterion)
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Oleg Efremov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
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Tri topolya na Plyushchikhe (1967)
Aleksandr Borisov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part II (1966)
At Home Among Strangers (1974)
Nikolay Smorchkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Jean-Claude Balard
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
War and Peace: Part I (1965)
Aleksandr Komissarov
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
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Zoya Rupasova
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
A Nest of Gentry (1969)
Daniil Netrebin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Yuliya Dioshi
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Liberation (1971)
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Nikolay Kutuzov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
Aleksey Glazyrin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Viy (1967)
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Nikolay Trofimov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part I (1965)
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