EndGrand Prize at the 4th Moscow
International Film Festival, 1966
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences Award ("Oscar"), 1968
MOSFILM
Thoughts that have
important consequences
are always simple.
All my thinking could be
summed up with these words:
Since corrupt people
unite among themselves
to constitute a force,
honest people
must do the same.
It's as simple as that.
LEO TOLSTOY
WAR AND PEACE
ANDREl BOLKONSKY
Directed by
Sergei BONDARCHUK
Screen adaptation by
Sergei BONDARCHUK, Vassily SOLOVIOV
Director of Photography
Anatoly PETRITSKY
Production Designers
Mikhail BOGDANOV, Gennady MIASNIKOV
Music composed by
Vyacheslav OVCHINNIKOV
Sound Director
Yuri MIKHAILOV
English subtitles by
Tatiana Kameneva
Starring:
Liudmila SAVELYEVA as
Natasha Rostova
Sergei BONDARCHUK as
Pierre Bezukhov
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV as
Andrei Bolkonsky
V. STANITSIN as
Ilya Andreyevich Rostov
K. GOLOVKO as
Countess Rostova
O. TABAKOV as Nikolai Rostov
N. RODIN, S. ERMILOV as Petya Rostov
I. GUBANOVA as Sonya
A. KTOROV as
Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
A. SHURANOVA as Princess Maria
A. VERTINSKAYA as Lisa Bolkonskaya
B. SMIRNOV as Prince Vassily
I. SKOBTSEVA as Helen
V. LANOVOY as Anatole
O. EFREMOV as Dolokhov
N. TOLKACHEV as Count Bezukhov
Ye. TYAPKINA as Akhrosimova
K. POLOVIKOVA as Drubetskaya
E. MARTSEVICH as Drubetskoy
A. STEPANOVA as Scherer
D. FIRSOVA as Katish
G. KRAVCHENKO as Karaghina
B. ZAKHAVA as Kutuzov
N. TROFIMOV as Tushin
G. CHOKHONELIDZE as Bagration
N. RYBNIKOV as Denissov
V. MURGANOV as Alexander I
V. STRZHELCHIK as Napoleon
V. SAFRONOV as Emperor Francis
N. BUBNOV as General Mack
I. SOLOVYOV as Shinshin
Yu. CHEKULAYEV as Nesvitsky
P. SAVIN as Timokhin
A. SMIRNOV as Staff Officer
V. BADAYEV as Regiment Commander
ST. PETERSBURG. 1805
The celebrated Anna Pavlovna
Scherer,
most intimate lady-in-waiting
of the Empress Maria Fedorovna,
gave at her home the receptions
which she alone had a gift
for organizing.
Tonight, Anna Pavlovna
was "treating" her guests
to a French aristocrat,
the Vicomte de Mortemart,
who'd taken refuge in Russia from
the Antichrist Napoleon Buonaparte.
The execution of Duke of Enghien
was a state necessity.
Napoleon is great, and
the Revolution was a great thing...
Excuse me,
my dear Vicomte,
but this unfortunate soiree
at the Ambassador's
deprives me of the pleasure
to hear you out.
It saddens me to have to leave
this delightful party.
Scherer's salon gathered together
"the flower of the intellectual
high society of St. Petersburg",
as Anna Pavlovna herself
described it.
It was here, during these soirees,
that could best be measured
the political temperature of
the official spheres in the capital
which were close to the Court.
My husband's planning to desert me,
he may be killed.
Tell me, why must we have
this wretched war?
Are you going off to the war,
Prince?
General Kutuzov has been kind
enough to take me as aide-de-camp.
- And what about Lisa, your wife?
- She will go to the country.
Oh, it's sinful of you to deprive
us of your charming wife.
Why can't men live
without wars?
Take us, women,
we don't want anything.
We don't need anything.
What have you done to MIle Scherer?
Now she's going to be really ill.
This abbe is an interesting man,
but he sees it in the wrong light.
I think the eternal peace is
possible,
but, I don't know how to express it,
only not through
political balance.
People should not say everywhere
what they think.
Have you made your mind at last?
The Imperial Guards or diplomacy?
I don't know yet.
I don't like to be either.
He must be a Freemason anyway.
Let's talk about serious things.
Have you been to the Cavalry?
No. But that's what occurred to me,
and I wanted to tell you about it.
Now we're at war with Napoleon.
If it were a liberation war,
I would have understood.
I would have been the first
to enlist.
But to help Britain and Austria to