
War and Peace
1965 · Movie · GP · 422 min · ★ 7.6 · 95% critics
Set against Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia, this sweeping historical drama intertwines an intimate romance with the upheaval of war. As high-society lives are reshaped by love, duty, and national crisis, the story moves between grand social gatherings and overwhelming battlefront chaos.
Based on War and Peace
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Details
- Original title
- Война и мир
- Years
- 1965
- Release date
- 1968-04-28
- Network
- Central Television USSR
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
- GP
- Runtime
- 422 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (157 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a huge, emotionally charged historical epic with romance and massive war sequences, especially if you like They Fought for Their Country; Not for you if very long runtimes or dense period stories wear you out.
Pros: astonishing battle scale; rich period atmosphere; stirring music | Cons: very long runtime; some confusing character threads; uneven pacing
Themes
- napoleon bonaparte
- napoleonic wars
- war of 1812
- historical drama
- 19th century
- historical epic
- romantic drama
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1969
- Academy Award — Best Production Design · 1969 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1969 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1969 · nominated
Cast & crew

Ludmila Savelyeva
as Natasha Rostova

Sergey Bondarchuk
as Pierre Bezukhov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Andrei Bolkonsky

Viktor Stanitsyn
as Ilya Andreyevich Rostov

Kira Golovko
as Countess Rostova

Oleg Tabakov
as Nikolai Rostov

Nikolay Kodin
as Petya Rostov

Sergei Yermilov
as Petya Rostov

Irina Gubanova
as Sonya

Anatoli Ktorov
as Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk