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War and Peace

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War and Peace
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3hrs 28min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1956
Director:
King Vidor
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer  ...more
Synopsis: War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision newsreel footage of the actual events. ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
In spite of its three-hour length, this 1956 King Vidor film presents only a surface perusal of the panoramic, character-packed novel on which it is based, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's two-inch-thick tome War and Peace. Nevertheless, the movie gives viewers just enough of the novel to allow them to browse Russian drawing rooms and battlefields and to eavesdrop on the lives and longings of people affected ... Full Review
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Audrey Hepburn
Natasha
Henry Fonda
Pierre
Mel Ferrer
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Vittorio Gassman
Anatole
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