"All thoughts that have huge consequences are always simple. My whole idea is that if vicious people are interconnected and make up strength, then honest people need to do the same,"
- with these words of Leo Tolstoy epic picture "War and Peace" begins.
Film tells about the life of Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century. Against the backdrop of the tragic and dramatic events associated with the war with Napoleon, the psychological searches of Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov and other heroes of the famous novel are vividly presented. IMDb rating: 8,3
Director: Bondarchuk Sergey
Screenwriters: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasily Solovyov
Composer: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Operator: Petritsky Anatoly
Production designers: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, Said Menyashchikov, Semyon Valyushok, Alexander Dikhtyar
Cast: Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Mikhail Vorobyov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Kira Golovko, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Vasily Lanovoy, Irina Skobtseva, Lyudmila Savelieva - Big golden prize to Bondarchuk S.F. at the IV International Film Festival, Moscow (1965);
- The main prize "Golden Head of Palenque" and Diploma at the VIII review of festival films in Acapulco (Mexico) (1965); - Honorary Diploma to Bondarchuk S.F. at the XXVI IFF, Venice (1965); - An honorary prize for the complex movements of a movie camera during shooting and a diploma for it at the V International Technical Film Competition of the VII UNIATEK Congress in Prague (Czechoslovakia) (1966);
- The highest prize "Pearl" for the best film at the Competition of the Japanese Association of Cinema Fans "Roei" (1966);
- "Oscar" by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts in Los Angeles (USA) for the best foreign film in 1968 (1969);
- First prize for the best foreign film for 1968. from the New York Film Critics Association (USA) (1969);
