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DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 3, 2002
Budget $6,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for violence.
Running Time
3 hours, 28 minutes
Country Italy, USA
Studio Carlo Ponti Productions, De Laurentiis, Paramount
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Other Titles
• War and Peace
• Krieg und Frieden (1957)
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama, Epic, Period Piece, Love Triangle, Love
Tagline: Conflicts, Loves, Passions, Drama, You Live Through a Supreme Experience as "War and Peace" Comes Alive On The Screen!
Plot: Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of Russian society, he was able to draw on his own experience as a soldier in this campaign, capturing the chaos and confusion of battle in its terrible immediacy. Both the immensely wealthy Pierre and his friend Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer), members of an aristocracy of warriors, become disenchanted with the unheroic truth of war. As he says, "The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and darkness." The reflective, unhappily married Pierre is a seeker after truth, wracked with doubt about himself, about the purpose of the war, and about the destiny of the human race. It is only in his love for the enchanting Natasha (Audrey Hepburn) that the ruminative protagaonist can find the meaning that he sought for so long. The film suffers from a leaden script and the 54-year-old Fonda is seriously miscast, but it is worth watching for the excellence of the panoramic battle scenes alone, directed by Mario Soldati.
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| Directed by |
King Vidor
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| Written by |
| Mario Camerini
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| Cast |
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 | Henry Fonda
12 Angry Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Longest Day |
 | Anita Ekberg
The Sweet Life, Artists and Models, Boccaccio '70 |
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 | Mel Ferrer
The Longest Day, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Scaramouche | | | |
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Nino Rota
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Eight and a Half |
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