War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
3.8
Length147 mins
LanguageRussian
Release Date1966-03-14
StatusReleased
War
Drama
History
Synopsis
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.