The definitive screen version of the novel.
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10/16/07
War and Peace (1968)
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 11
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Runtime: 7 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This epic tale takes place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in the years 1805-1820. While these calamitous historical events unfold, a variety of characters from various classes and cultures try to deal with their own personal... [More]
Starring: Ludmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tihonov, Hira Ivanov-Golovko
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Reviews for War and Peace
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic Exhaustive, spectacular, often dazzling in its ambition and faithfulness to Tolstoy, the movie is still regarded as one of the wonders of epic cinema.
12/07/07
More than a dozen sequences defy description, and the vast battle scenes of Austerlitz and Borodino have no equal.
12/06/07
Bondarchuk's film, which won a Best Foreign Film Oscar and was also serialized for British television, is certainly the definitive movie version of War and Peace, memorably impressive in its scope and ambition.
10/16/07
Top Critic 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.'
10/16/07
If it did cost the best part of a billion dollars, it was money well-spent.
09/12/07
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.
06/01/07
Top Critic Though it can be bombastic and mind-numbing, it's often lively and eye filling.
06/01/07
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