cudgel that comes handy
and deals blows with it
till, in its heart,
resentment and revenge give way
to a felling of compassion.
He says he's Captain Ramball's
orderly.
- We ought to make him warm.
- Take the officer to the house.
Oh, my kind friends!
These are good men!
My kind friends.
Come on, drink up.
Teach it me. I'll catch it
in no time.
They're human too.
Even the weeds have their roots.
Oh, God! I never saw so many stars!
That means a good harvest
this year.
Bow its head. Lower!
There we are. Hurrah, my friends!
I want to thank all of you
for your hard and loyal service.
Our victory is complete.
Russia will remember you.
Your glory shall live for all time.
And now, brothers,
I know it's hard for you.
But there's no help for it! Be
patient, it won't last much longer.
We will see our visitors off,
and then we will rest.
It's hard for you, but still you
are at home, while they...
You see what they have come to?
Worse than the lowest beggars.
While they were strong,
we did not spare ourselves,
but now we can even spare them.
They too are men. Right, fellows?
But after all is said and done,
who asked them to come here?
It serves them right.
To have their mugs in shit!
It was only now that Pierre
understood, not with his intellect,
but with his entire being,
with his life,
that man was created for happiness.
He looked joyfully about him
at life,
eternally changing,
majestic,
incomprehensible and infinite.
Well, so this is how we meet.
Until the very last moment,
he often spoke of you.
When I heard you were safe,
it made me so glad.
It was the best piece of news that
we had received in a long time.
Imagine, I'd never had any news
of him.
So I thought he'd been killed.
What I did hear was generally
hearsay, through strangers.
All I knew was he'd landed
by a miracle at the Rostovs.
Strange thing, Fate!
Don't you recognize her?
If I were somebody else,
good-Iooking, intelligent and the
best of men, and if I were free,
I would be right now at your feet
asking for your hand and for
your love.
And hurrah for the whole world!
And I say,
let us all take one another's hand,
all of us who believe in goodness,
and let there be but one banner,
that of active good will.
I only mean that 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 is as simple as that.
The 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