Directed by:
Sergei Fyodorovich BondarchukScreenplay:
Sergei Fyodorovich BondarchukComposer:
Vyacheslav OvchinnikovPlots(1)
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, director Sergei Bondarchuk conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power. As a statement of Soviet cinema’s might, War and Peace succeeded wildly, garnering the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and setting a new standard for epic moviemaking. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Vjačeslav Tichonov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270956_0492ee.jpg)
Vjačeslav Tichonov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270958_34f608.jpg)
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Father Sergius (1978)
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
![Lyudmila Savelyeva](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270728_7e1029.jpg)
Lyudmila Savelyeva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Viktor Stanitsyn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/434/434672_45b0ed.jpg)
Viktor Stanitsyn
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Boris Smirnov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Ирина Губанова](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/117/160/117160030_12abb2.jpg)
Ирина Губанова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/428/428898_a6ed2e.jpg)
Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
Anatoli Ktorov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part II (1966)
Gennadiy Ivanov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Kin (1981)
Emelyan Pugachyov (1978)
![Irina Skobtseva](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/153/626/153626332_e60349.jpg)
Irina Skobtseva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Father Sergius (1978)
War and Peace (1965)
Waterloo (1970)
![Sergey Nikonenko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/949/157949061_0c7935.jpg)
Sergey Nikonenko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Father Sergius (1978)
War and Peace (1965)
![Dzhemma Firsova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/444/444356_5dc1cb.jpg)
Dzhemma Firsova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Spring for the Thirsty (1965)
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
![Aleksey Gorbunov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494700_933cff.jpg)
Aleksey Gorbunov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Mamy (2012)
12 (2007)
Pyotr Savin
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part I (1965)
![Nikolay Grinko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272081_d119a7.jpg)
Nikolay Grinko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
![Anastasiya Vertinskaya](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505271_ab4cf7.jpg)
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Hamlet (1964)
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Georgiy Millyar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/412/412563_726d22.jpg)
Georgiy Millyar
Russian Empire
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
War and Peace: Part I (1965)
![Nonna Mordyukova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269497_0fcbe7.jpg)
Nonna Mordyukova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
War and Peace: Part II (1966)
![Nikita Mikhalkov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269803_4a1ef3.jpg)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
![Vladislav Strzhelchik](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275813_36c780.jpg)
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Father Sergius (1978)
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)