History · Drama · War · Romance
Soviet (Война и мир)
1968 · Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk · 422 min
Sergei Bondarchuk adapts Tolstoy's novel across more than seven hours, following several Russian families through the years of Napoleon's wars. Intimate drawing-room drama and enormous battlefield spectacle sit side by side, built around a searching young nobleman and a girl growing into adulthood.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the Soviet Thaw-era epic and the high point of 70mm historical filmmaking in the East, it showed that state-backed cinema could rival Hollywood's biggest productions in scale and in ambition.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film moves between private feeling and vast historical forces, and how its style changes to mark each.
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