So wild that something so epic and well made is just available for free on KZread. Mosfilm just keeps posting all their greatest stuff, with english subtitles to boot, it's awesome.

Awesome film, I remember seeing it in 1970, I was ten years old. Many years later I saw it in a one day showing at The Barbican, and later The Royal Festival Hall. It is a mesmerising film, as intimately moving as it is breathtakingly awe inspiring. Bondarchuk is still my favourite Pierre Bezukhov. To think he followed this masterpiece with "Waterloo" my favourite film ever. What a talent, and what an achievement. You have done a great job in both your profiles of his two epics, many thanks.

@tomsenior7405

Ай бұрын

Excellent. I bloody love "Waterloo", even though it isn't the finest of cinematic works. If only the script was better. If only the camera work was better. If only the Highlanders didn't dominate the Allied numbers. If only The Direction was better. If only... And despite these faults, I count it as one of my all time favourites.

@aishabintabubakr4944

Ай бұрын

Think of it this way....Audrey Hepburn was seen as Natasha Rostova. Then the Russians said "Hold my vodka"

One of the greatest films of all time. A true masterpiece. Was lucky to see all parts of it in theater in 2019 following its restoration and was floored at how it looked and sounded. Just amazing.

It was way better than Ridley Scott's Napoleon...

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

100%

@MungoMcGhee

Ай бұрын

@@VoidVolken 10,000%

@brianwolle2509

29 күн бұрын

a million per cent!!!

@kaykutcher2103

20 күн бұрын

Even King Vidor's stinker War and Peace was better. Herbert Lom as Napoleon was that film's only stroke of genius but at least it had one unlike Scott's. My dad is still gutted.

@jaesemdianmanucan9165

14 күн бұрын

​@@kaykutcher2103 When I watched Ridley Scott's Napoleon I just said that was it? It's disappointing, it lacked grandeur during battles and WTF there are no trenches at Waterloo

It’s on KZread! The Mosfilm channel ….. Kubrick must have been so jealous

The one Soviet director who flourished under Stalin was Sergei Eisenstein who made visually stunning movies.

Magnificent video and thank you for pointing me toward the Mosfilm channel on YT. I shall finally be able to see the entire masterpiece as intended.

@GordonCaledonia

Ай бұрын

Kurosawa's, *_Dersu Uzala_* is also on there, an amazing film set in Russia in the early 1900s: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXqVrpJsg66rqqg.html

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov's score is amazing. He scored some of Tarkovsky's films. Great composer, rest in peace.

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

The score is great, Natasha's Waltz being one of my favourite tracks.

Coppola and Ridley Scott notoriously go the extra mile on production design. Bondarchuk went an extra hundred miles. "How many items from Soviet museums do you want, Mr Bondarchuk." "All of them."

Finally an essay about this masterpiece

Thank you. Despite being Russian I've never before stumbled upon even a domestic review of War and Peace production story, so it's quite interesting to see it from the external perspective. I'd say you did very well with the research, collecting and editing all the footage. The only "cringey" moment for me was with those comments about soldiers and air force not being reimbursed for their part in the movie - I found them to be completely out of place and quite pointless in the essence. As you've stressed yourself on multiple occasions, their involvement was facilitated by the government. And it means just that, all the military servicemen involved in WnP production were on duty, and thus all the costs, materiel, logistics (and wages, where applicable) were covered by the Ministry of Defense. And I seriously doubt there were any hard feelings between MoD and Mosfilm about that. Better imagine how incredible it must have felt for someone to be conscripted to serve those two long boring years in the army, but to find themselves in the middle of a full-scale historical battle reconstruction/reenactment effort. Naturally, that came with certain hardships, but what a unique experience and memories for life to be told to grandchildren!

The logistics and labour for this is goddamn insane.

*Sergei Bondarchuks wasn't only an epic film directorector but a talented actor as well, practically the most international soviet actor ever, he could be considered the soviet Orson Wells and as a matter of fact, they even coincided in the movie Battle of Neretva (1969)🧐*

This documentary about this movie was well made. Great job and thank you from Holland.

Excellent essay. Well done. Thank you.

Very well put together documentary which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you!

I have a few ideas for a list Lawrence of Arabia Bridge on the River Kwai Ghandi Saving Private Ryan

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

I plan on doing Lawrence of Arabia as my next 'Insane Production Behind' video

this content is so underrated...

have seen it. incredible!

An astounding documentary for an astounding film! Kudos!

Excellent video!

The film was extremely impressive indeed... but so is this video.

Thank you chief.

Nothing I love better than seeing a small channel make a shit hot video like channels with millions of subs can’t.. never heard of this beast of a film but I’m definitely gonna watch it after this video 😅 top mate.

Having watched waterloo multiple times and needing that itch scratched, I'll watch the 4 parts of war and peace after seeing this video.

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy it

@aishabintabubakr4944

Ай бұрын

It's 7 hours long, but 7 hours well spent

Really great stuff man! Learned and saw a lot of new stuff about Bondarchuk and about the productions! Despite the errors and trails [like the mosin error which made me laugh] they are still masterpieces.

You deserve so many more views than you are getting this is great work.

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

In terms of epic scale, the new Dune movie pales in comparison to Sergei Bondarchuk's magnum opus.

Great film no doubt! Production started during Khrushchev's time and was completed during Brezhnev's time?

@VoidVolken

25 күн бұрын

Yes

Awesome work, this is your longest video yet right? It goes to show the staggering amount of work this epic saga required. I also noticed you have quite a few video about 90s scifi anime. I would check those out later when I got the time.

@VoidVolken

28 күн бұрын

Yes, this is currently the longest video I have ever made. Concerning videos I have done on 90s anime, I recommend checking out my video on Ghost in the Shell as it's similar to these 'Insane production behind' videos.

@quano5409

28 күн бұрын

@@VoidVolken Oh nice to know. Would definitely check that video out later.

The biggest blank Cheque ever given to a director.

I really admire your work and would very much like to see this/these film(s). I'd love to see more of your videos focusing on epics - may I suggest Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1965?) and other such epics of the era. Many thanks. Subscribed.

@VoidVolken

Ай бұрын

Thanks, while I enjoy making videos on epics there are other topics I would like to cover as well, so I try to reasonably space them out. Cleopatra is on my list but I still need a couple of things before proceeding with that video. The Fall of the Roman Empire is unlikely as I don't even own a copy of the film and its been out of print for years with little prospects of coming back in print, same goes for El Cid.

Kubrick is still watching it now......

And a couple of enourmous series Young Indiana Jones Winds of War War and Redemption

The battle of Borodino; which part will I find it (there’s 4 “chapters “) That’s all I care about

@VoidVolken

27 күн бұрын

Part 3

@oobrocks

27 күн бұрын

Thank u!

Where did you get the footage of Russians queuing at the cinema? Is it available on disc?

@VoidVolken

13 күн бұрын

I got it from a television program called Les Sovietiques, its available on the Criterion Collection Blu Ray of War and Peace.

Thank you for this elaborate dive into this film behind the scenes history. I have two points to make though: Just because Bondarchyuk was originally from Ukraine, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t already an accomplished and well respected actor/director. After all he was

Communism has many problems but it does allow for the resources of an entire nation to be brought to bare for a single project

Didn't even know. BTS videos existed

Hard to understand why millions would tolerate a leader like Stalin, I guess it’s no different now with Putler.

@renekauts8323

26 күн бұрын

Stalin and Putin are both mass murderers.

@MarMar-nq9ii

20 күн бұрын

Сталин и Путин абсолютно разные, даже противоположные.

@joek600

16 күн бұрын

here is your cookie now f off