War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

(1966)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 83 votes

Genres: History, Romance, War, Drama

Year: 1966

Runtime: 147 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Сергей Бондарчук

Cast: Вячеслав Тихонов, Сергей Бондарчук, Людмила Савельева, Анастасия Вертинская, Виктор Станицын, Кира Головко, Олег Табаков, Николай Кодин, Сергей Ермилов, Ирина Губанова

Plot

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, 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 General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.