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It is, of course, an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' by Creator/LeoTolstoy. The film opens in 1805 as Pierre Bezhukov (played by Bondarchuk), son of a nobleman, is making the rounds of St. Petersburg high society. While Pierre wants no part of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, his friend Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Creator/VyacheslavTikhonov) joins the army, and narrowly escapes death when Napoleon crushes the Russian and Austrians at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz battle of Austerlitz]].
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It is, of course, an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' by Creator/LeoTolstoy. The film opens in 1805 as Pierre Bezhukov (played by Bondarchuk), son of a nobleman, is making the rounds of St. Petersburg high society. While Pierre wants no part of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, his friend Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Creator/VyacheslavTikhonov) joins the army, and narrowly escapes death when Napoleon UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte crushes the Russian and Austrians at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz battle of Austerlitz]].
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** Several shots from the wounded Prince Andrei's perspective in Part 4 go in and out of focus, particularly the first two times he sees Natasha.
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''War and Peace'' came ten years after an epic American film adaptation directed by Creator/KingVidor (which was screened in the Soviet Union in 1959). The Soviets, miffed at their American Cold War rivals producing a successful adaptation of their story, elected to make one of their own. Mosfilm spared no expense; the film cost nearly 8.3 million rubles, some $70 million in American dollars of fifty years later. The film was made to be even more faithful to the book than the Vidor film, and consequently ran for ''seven hours and 11 minutes''. It was released in Russia in 1966 and 1967 in four separate installments, and was a box-office smash.
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''War and Peace'' came ten years after [[Film/WarAndPeace1956 an epic American film adaptation adaptation]] directed by Creator/KingVidor (which was screened in the Soviet Union in 1959). The Soviets, miffed at their American Cold War rivals producing a successful adaptation of their story, elected to make one of their own. Mosfilm spared no expense; the film cost nearly 8.3 million rubles, some $70 million in American dollars of fifty years later. The film was made to be even more faithful to the book than the Vidor film, and consequently ran for ''seven hours and 11 minutes''. It was released in Russia in 1966 and 1967 in four separate installments, and was a box-office smash.
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** A jaw-dropping tracking shot comes near the end of Part III, during the battle of Borodino. The camera glides without a cut through chaos and havoc, as shells explode, buildings burn, men fight to the death, and cavalry squadrons go galloping past.
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** A jaw-dropping tracking shot comes near the end of Part III, during the battle Battle of Borodino. The camera glides without a cut through chaos and havoc, as shells explode, buildings burn, men fight to the death, and cavalry squadrons go galloping past. And just before that, there is a crane tracking shot that travels in a perfect line and ''goes through a burning fire''.
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** Tsar Alexander I is glimpsed from a distance at several points in Parts I-III, such as when he and Napoleon meet to sign the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807.
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* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''War and Peace''
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* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''War and Peace''Peace''.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: While most of the score was composed especially for the film by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, several scenes set at the Bolkonsky estate are scored to the finale of Music/JosephHaydn's ''Farewell'' symphony (specifically, the part where the musicians leave the stage a few at a time).
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: While most of the score was composed especially for the film by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, several scenes set at the Bolkonsky estate are scored to the finale of Music/JosephHaydn's ''Farewell'' symphony (specifically, the part where the musicians leave the stage a few at a time).
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* TenPacesAndTurn: Pierre fights a duel against Dolokhov after finding out about Dolokhov's affair with his wife.
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* TenPacesAndTurn: Pierre fights a duel against Dolokhov after finding out about Dolokhov's affair with his wife.wife, although they use the more traditional "fire from behind the barrier" code of pistol duels. Pierre's shot hits Dolokhov; his wound is not too serious, but it's bad enough that Dolokhov's shot misses Pierre completely.
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* BigBadassBattleSequence: The epic Battle of Borodino sequence, with smoke, flame, explosions, cannon fire, tracking shots, crane shots, thousands of extras, and hundreds of cavalrymen galloping across the field in grand charges. It closes Part III.
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** The first part of Part I closes with the Battle of Austerlitz, the camera tracking high into the sky until the thousands of circling cavalrymen and the volleys of artillery fire are dwarfed by the surrounding Austrian countryside.
** The epic Battle of Borodino sequence, with smoke, flame, explosions, cannon fire, tracking shots, crane shots, thousands of extras, and hundreds of cavalrymen galloping across the field in grand charges. It closes Part III.
** The first part of Part I closes with the Battle of Austerlitz, the camera tracking high into the sky until the thousands of circling cavalrymen and the volleys of artillery fire are dwarfed by the surrounding Austrian countryside.
** The epic Battle of Borodino sequence, with smoke, flame, explosions, cannon fire, tracking shots, crane shots, thousands of extras, and hundreds of cavalrymen galloping across the field in grand charges. It closes Part III.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Andrei's wife Lise dies just as he's getting back from Austerlitz.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Andrei's wife Lise dies giving birth to their son Nikolai, just as he's getting back from Austerlitz.
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* WarIsHell: Whether it's the Battles of Schöngrabern and Austerlitz in Part I, the Battle of Borodino in Part III, or the burning of Moscow and the French retreat across the frigid Russian countryside in Part IV, we are treated to plenty of sequences that emphasise just how awful war is for the soldiers and civilians caught up in it. Narration underscoring that an army on the march sees every house as an ambush spot and every local as a possible spy, Russian officers lamenting how desperately underequipped and underfed their men are, battlefields with knee-deep mud bogging down artillery and cavalry advances, soldiers wearing blood-soaked bandages over missing eyes, arms, or legs, whole neighbourhoods consumed by fire and families losing each other in the chaos, prisoners of war executed by firing squad without trial, French soldiers freezing and/or starving as Napoleon is forced to retreat back to Paris... it all makes the "Peace" in "War and Peace" that much sweeter by comparison.
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* AbandonedArea: Moscow, after almost everyone evacuates in Part IV. Bits of paper drift through empty streets.
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* AbandonedArea: Moscow, after almost everyone evacuates in Part IV. Bits of paper drift through empty streets. Napoleon Bonaparte is shown all by himself, walking through the halls of a silent, abandoned Kremlin.
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** Napoleon is seen briefly at Borodino, barking out orders.
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** Napoleon pops near the end of Part III and is seen briefly at Borodino, barking out orders.periodically throughout Part IV. His last appearance has him abandoning his army and taking a fast coach back home, as happened in real life.
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* StaggeredZoom: For the introduction of Natasha (Ludmila Savelyeva).
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* StaggeredZoom: For the introduction of Natasha (Ludmila Savelyeva).Savelyeva), as she throws open a door to meet the party guests.
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* EpicTrackingShot: Natasha's entrance into her first grand ball is accompanied with a shot of a little over 2 1/2 minutes in which the camera swoops into, out of, and around the main ballroom. This appears to have been done with trickery, as people pass in front of the camera multiple times in ways that could hide a cut.
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** Natasha's entrance into her first grand ball is accompanied with a shot of a little over 2 1/2 minutes in which the camera swoops into, out of, and around the main ballroom. This appears to have been done with trickery, as people pass in front of the camera multiple times in ways that could hide acut.cut.
** A jaw-dropping tracking shot comes near the end of Part III, during the battle of Borodino. The camera glides without a cut through chaos and havoc, as shells explode, buildings burn, men fight to the death, and cavalry squadrons go galloping past.
** Natasha's entrance into her first grand ball is accompanied with a shot of a little over 2 1/2 minutes in which the camera swoops into, out of, and around the main ballroom. This appears to have been done with trickery, as people pass in front of the camera multiple times in ways that could hide a
** A jaw-dropping tracking shot comes near the end of Part III, during the battle of Borodino. The camera glides without a cut through chaos and havoc, as shells explode, buildings burn, men fight to the death, and cavalry squadrons go galloping past.
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* NoRomanticResolution: Interestingly, while Natasha and Pierre do indeed marry towards the end of Tolstoy's novel, they don't in this film, and in fact there's no confirmation that they will even be a couple. In the movie, Pierre returns to Moscow after escaping from French captivity, and finds the Rostovs. Natasha stands up to greet him. He smiles at her...and that is it, as the last moments show Russian armies moving west against Napoleon, followed by the narrator musing about how good people must group together to fight evil, before the film ends.
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* CallBack: As the French pursue the Russian army into Russia's interior, Kutuzov promises that before it's all over, the French will be eating horse meat. Near the end, as the remnants of the French army retreat, one scene shows French soldiers butchering a horse.
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** Part IV has a split screen shot showing the many horrors Pierre sees as Moscow burns--a hanged man, a man being shot by firing squad, statuses being pulled down, churches burning, French soldiers looting a wine cellar.
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** Part IV has a split screen shot showing the many horrors Pierre sees as Moscow burns--a hanged man, a man being shot by firing squad, statuses statues being pulled down, churches burning, French soldiers looting a wine cellar.
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* SnowMeansDeath: It certainly does for the French near the end of the film, as they flee Russia at the end of 1812 after winter has set in. Soldiers stagger through blizzards, as the road west is lined with the frozen bodies of men and horses.
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* BigBadassBattleSequence: The epic Battle of Borodino sequence, with smoke, flame, explosions, cannon fire, tracking shots, crane shots, thousands of extras, and hundreds of cavalrymen galloping across the field in grand charges.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Almost all of the film is in color, but for the scene where Natasha's teenaged brother Petya is shot from his horse and killed while in a cavalry charge against the French, the scene switches to black and white.
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* DesertSkull: It isn't a desert, or a skull for that matter. But the ribcages of horses, seen as the bedraggled remnants of the French army retreat from Moscow, underline the desperate situation that Napoleon's army is in.
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* MomentOfSilence: Pierre watches in horror as a teenaged boy is tied to a stake by French soldiers and shot, in a scene that plays in silence.
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* GlassesPull: Pierre as he watches his father Count Bezhukov die.
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** Pierre as he watches his father Count Bezhukovdie.die.
** The French officer grilling Pierre in Part IV (Pierre is suspected of being a spy) seems to think that pulling his glasses off will get him a better look at Pierre.
** Pierre as he watches his father Count Bezhukov
** The French officer grilling Pierre in Part IV (Pierre is suspected of being a spy) seems to think that pulling his glasses off will get him a better look at Pierre.
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* KilledOffscreen: Early in Part IV the narrator mentions offhandedly the "sudden death" of Pierre's faithless wife Helene.
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** Field Marshal Kutuzov, who explains to Andrei his 1812 strategy of trading space for time until the French start running out of food. (It worked.)
** Napoleon is seen briefly at Borodino, barking out orders.
** Field Marshal Kutuzov, who explains to Andrei his 1812 strategy of trading space for time until the French start running out of food. (It worked.)
** Napoleon is seen briefly at Borodino, barking out orders.
