How the Soviet Government, at the height of the Cold War, could finance and produce a masterpiece like this is one of the great mysteries of the 20th century. Truly magnificent from every level - as a period piece, a psychological drama, a war movie, a love story, a history.Tolstoy would be universally acclaimed ahead of Shakespeare if he (Tolstoy) had the good sense to be from England.
The Russian people have been celebrated as lovers of great writing and the subject at hand, "War and Peace", becomes a poem at the conclusion. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: 9781400079988 : Books From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoys masterwork. Bondarchuk's amazing direction, as well as his acting, is breathtaking. It probably hasn't been seen in the US on a broad scale since ABC had the good sense to run it as a four part late-night special in early 1973 (anyone else remember)? Not even subtitles - for those of us who are not true foreign film buffs, I mean - can hurt this film.
Mayer), and the world's most infamous LONG novel turned into a megamotion picture. Tolstoys magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur War and Peace begins at a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. The best film ever made, ESPECIALLY when taking into account all the logistics - the Soviet Government as a film studio? (sort of makes sense, after you picture Leonid Brezhnev as Louis B.
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