War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)

Name: War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Released: 1966
Duration: 2 h 27 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Anatoli Ktorov, Antonina Shuranova, Boris Smirnov, Irina Gubanova

Original Title: Война и Мир 1: Андрей Болконский

Drama History Romance War

7.6 (84 votes)

2h 27m

Overview

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.

Details

Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Writer: Leo Tolstoy, Vasiliy Solovyov, Sergei Bondarchuk
Original Language: Russian
Budget: N/A

Cast

Anastasiya Vertinskaya Anatoli Ktorov Antonina Shuranova Boris Smirnov Irina Gubanova Irina Skobtseva Kira Golovko Ludmila Savelyeva Nikolay Kodin Oleg Tabakov Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Yermilov Vasili Lanovoy Viktor Stanitsyn Vyacheslav Tikhonov