War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky 1966

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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.

Release Date 1966-03-14
Runtime 2h 27m
Directors Sergey Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Shelenkov, Anatoly Petritsky, Yu-Lan Chen
Producer
Writers Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy