War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky(1966)

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.

Genre: War, Drama, History

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk

Actors: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Golovko, Oleg Tabakov, Irina Gubanova, Anatoli Ktorov, Antonina Shuranova, Anastasiya Vertinskaya

Release date: 1966-03-14

Country of origin: SU

Length: 2h 27m

Ratings:

• 8.2/10