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.
Sergey Bondarchuk | Director |
Aleksandr Shelenkov | Director of Photography |
Anatoly Petritsky | Director of Photography |
Yu-Lan Chen | Director of Photography |
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov | Original Music Composer |
Leo Tolstoy | Novel |
Sergey Bondarchuk | Screenplay |
Vasiliy Solovyov | Screenplay |
Tatiana Likhacheva | Editor |