War and Peace
Summary:
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, 6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-uni... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Audrey Hepburn - (Natasha)
Henry Fonda - (Pierre)
Mel Ferrer - (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky)
Vittorio Gassman - (Anatole)
Anita Ekberg - (Helene)
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Review:
In spite of its three-hour length, this 1956 King Vidor film presents only a surface perusal of the panoramic, character-packed novel on which it is based, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's two-inch-thick tome -War and Peace. Nevertheless, the movie gives viewers just enough of the novel to allow them to browse Russian drawing rooms and battlefi... Continue >>
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