War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

7.6

147m

1966

12

War, Drama, History

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.

Starring

Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Golovko, Oleg Tabakov, Sergei Yermilov, Irina Gubanova, Anatoli Ktorov, Antonina Shuranova

Directed By

Sergey Bondarchuk