War and Peace

War and Peace

  • Director: King Vidor
  • Writer: Lev Tolstoy,Bridget Boland,Robert Westerby
  • Countries of origin: United States, Italy
  • Language: English, Italian, Russian
  • Release date: August 21, 1956
  • Also known as: Krieg und Frieden
  • War and Peace is a romantic film directed by Kim Victor and starring Audrey Hepburn , Henry Fonda , and Mel Ferrer . It was released in the United States on August 21, 1956.
    The film is adapted from the works of the Russian writer Tolstoy and shot in the American version   . It tells the tragic love story of Natasha and Pierre when Napoleon commanded the army to attack Russia   .

    Details

    • Release date August 21, 1956
    • Filming locations Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

    Box office

    Budget

    $6,000,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Marco 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      The most beautiful girl who loves life

      I seldom write film reviews, but under the shock of Tuo Lao's masterpiece, I always feel a pity if I don't write something about it. I love the changing history of characters' fate and thoughts under the background of real history. Tuo Lao is a palace-level great writer, swaying and swaying more than one million words, depicting so many characters and stories in such a delicate way, and the succession and transformation are natural and harmonious. "The true meaning of.

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    • By Ernest 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      "War and Peace"

      Apples shouldn't be picked when they're green, need patience and wait they're no longer warriors, they're scavengers, rubbish pickers I'll take to the streets and pick the soldiers I find who aren't drunk and let them take your place . Russian women, they are the lice on the conquerors, they must follow or die. Attack, the word "attack" is always on the lips. Ladies and gentlemen, they are invading our country like locusts. Nothing was left, no food, no shelter. Now they're going back the...

    • By Nora 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Maze - Tolstoy's "Dregs"

      Going back to Tolstoy, his attitude towards Napoleon in his trilogy, "War and Peace", actually expresses his complex mentality towards the philosophy of the Enlightenment, that is, deeply influenced by it and yearning for it irrefutably, but for a while. He refused to accept it and tried to use his own Orthodox beliefs to blend or even dwarf this fundamentally opposed rationalism that is indeed superior. The reason why the story is so grand and complex is...

    • By Clementine 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      love life

      (The discussion is purely from a cinematic perspective)
      The movie starts with four families, and these noble families undoubtedly have a place in Moscow, in Russia, and their sons get together all day to drink and play. Here is a description of the peaceful era in "War and Peace", and what kind of peace it was. In that era, the nobles lived a rotten life, and the rottenness mentioned here is not derogatory. Just relying on this film, I think Toweng is not criticizing this kind of...

    • By Letha 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      living means everything

      The hardest but necessary thing to do is to love life, even when suffering. Because life is everything, life is your God, and to love life is to love God. Whatever life gives, we have to accept it and love it, because life is everything we live.

      I do not want to cowardly disarm in the false dreamland, so I would rather you be a distant peace, so that you can continue to fight for you. Under the grand background, both life and death become small, but smallness does not mean eclipsed....

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    • By Nakia 2023-08-19 17:44:28

      Haven't read the original. Natasha can persuade his father to give up part of the family property to make room for the wounded, which is commendable. In war, everything is cruel. The most difficult and important thing in the world is to love life, even in the face of life injustice, still love it, because life is all you are, life is your...

    • By Bailee 2023-08-10 10:56:26

      Audrey is adorable, but she is not my Natasha. Not a good...

    • By Carroll 2023-08-03 07:24:10

      Love Hepburn, love...

    • By Newell 2023-07-19 14:18:46

      I have seen the Soviet version with a score of 8.2. There is such a highest standard of pearls in front. The Hollywood version in 1956 was to some extent "unbearable". A lot of plot tampering, although many scenes are also trying to stay true to the original. But what makes Hollywood so powerful is that it always has the ability to tell a popular story, so that people who haven't read the original can easily enter (this is a better place than the Soviet version, the Soviet version is in the...

    • By Lizeth 2023-05-27 03:48:30

      I was so bored after watching it that I couldn't watch it anymore...so I still don't know what it...

    Movie plot

    Andrei Bolkonsky ( Mel Ferrer ) insists on serving in the military despite his pregnant wife and aging father. When the battle fails, he returns home dejected, just as his wife dies in childbirth, Pierre Bezuhoff ( Henry Fonda ) is established as the heir before his father's death, and inherits his father's title of earl, and nobleman Kuragin's daughter Alan ( Anita Ekberg ) gets married. Shortly after the marriage, the two separated...
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    "War and Peace" takes the Russo-French war as the background and the life trajectory of Natasha and others as clues, unfolding a huge picture of Russian society in the early 19th century. Although due to factors such as film length and cultural background differences, the film fails to show the full essence of the original book, but the war scenes in the film, lifelike characterization, especially the acting skills of the two actors...
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    Movie quotes

    • Natasha Rostov: Nicholas.

      Nicholas Rostov: Yes?

      Natasha Rostov: The expression on my face.

      Nicholas Rostov: What about it?

      Natasha Rostov: Do I look disdainful?

      Nicholas Rostov: No!

      Natasha Rostov: You're impossible! I'm sure I look disdainful.

      Nicholas Rostov: Well, what do you want to look disdainful for?

      Natasha Rostov: Well, I thought if I looked bored and disdainful nobody would notice that this is the first ball I've ever been to... How's this? Better?

      Nicholas Rostov: Oh, that's much better.

      Natasha Rostov: Good.

    • Natasha Rostov: Nicholas.

      Nicholas Rostov: What now?

      Natasha Rostov: Is everybody looking at me?

      Nicholas Rostov: Well, can't you see for yourself?

      Natasha Rostov: Not without changing the expression on my face.

      Nicholas Rostov: Natasha, you know, there's one awful thing about you.

      Natasha Rostov: Tell it to me! Tell me the whole truth.

      Nicholas Rostov: No girl I'll ever meet will ever be able to amuse me as much as you do.

      Natasha Rostov: Shh... Don't talk like that.

    • Pierre Bezukhov: I have sinned, Lord, but I have several excellent excuses.