War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)
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.
Released: Mar 14, 1966
Runtime: 147 minutes
Stars: Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Golovko, Oleg Tabakov
Crew: Sergey Bondarchuk (Director), Aleksandr Shelenkov (Director of Photography), Anatoly Petritsky (Director of Photography), Yu-Lan Chen (Director of Photography), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (Original Music Composer), Leo Tolstoy (Novel)
