War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the 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 Napoleon.

Genre: War, Drama, History

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk

Cast: Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn

Country: Soviet Union

Quality: HD

Runtime: 147 min.

Release: 1966

IMDb: 7.7/10