The two-day rainstorm warning gave me time to watch the greatest art treasure of mankind - the 1966 Soviet version of the film "War and Peace" (four episodes in total) with a duration of 427 minutes! It's really an epic war movie, with great momentum and realistic scenes, and everyone's acting skills are so superb. The director's camera language ability is simply too strong, (the director is also the actor Pierre). The Soviet Union, in a way, used all the resources of the country to make this film, and the authorities granted director Sergey Bondarchuk access to all the resources of the country. The shooting of "War and Peace" was incorporated into the national plan, and many government agencies and the military participated in the shooting. Among them, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Light Industry of the Soviet Union have all been assigned tasks. They have transferred 150 cultural relics from 58 railway cars from 58 museums-19th century furniture, paintings, chandeliers, tableware and other daily necessities, only In order to truly present the life style of the Russian aristocrats at that time. This film, which took 5 years to shoot in the Soviet Union with all the efforts of the whole country regardless of the cost, cost 5.5% in the 1960s. 600 million US dollars, 590,000 people were used for the group performance; when shooting a big battle scene, the Soviet Union used 120,000 regular troops and 30,000 war horses, which is very close to the number of front-line French in that battle, from a certain To a certain extent, it is equivalent to fighting the war all over again. The crew even recast 60 cannons from 1805. During the shooting process, the crew spent dozens of tons of gunpowder and tens of thousands of smoke bombs, and the number of uniforms made just for shooting reached as many as 35,000 pieces. The entire battle scene was directed by three senior generals of the Soviet army. The general advisor was the Soviet hero General Kurasov, who had participated in the First World War. What is shocking is that it took more than 10,000 troops to build a 100,000-square-meter Moscow city and a complete Kremlin in two years. At the end of the movie, because of the need to shoot the Moscow fire, the crew burned it again, and the whole scene was extremely shocking. In the Great Patriotic War of 1812, Kutuzov led the army to defend Borodino and dealt a heavy blow to Napoleon. For the first time, Napoleon's army encountered a heavy blow from a stronger opponent in spirit; Under great pressure, they retreated from Moscow, and the people burned Moscow. Although Napoleon occupied Moscow, he was only faced with an empty city, and the supplies could not keep up. The Russians were victorious in the Patriotic War. Andre and Pierre also transformed their minds during the war and realized that they cherished the happiness around them. Andrei played by Tikhonov is so handsome, especially his emotional transformation of showing love to Natasha is memorable. Natasha matured rapidly in the war and in the incident of falling in love with a scumbag, from an innocent little girl to a beautiful and dignified woman. This kind of classical film film is really beautiful like oil paintings and sculptures. Every frame of the film is of exquisite oil painting texture, and the BGM is also at the level of symphonic poetry. In 1969, "War and Peace" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first time these two awards were awarded to a Soviet film.
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