When I was at university one of my professors of Russian history, an Oxford Ph.D. - a bit eccentric but brilliant said of this film “ this isn’t a film, it’s a work of art”. Amen.

@zhanghaotian9510

Жыл бұрын

Then ur prof was wrong, this is certainly considered by many ppl as a film lol

@WalterTonetto

Жыл бұрын

there are no Ph.Ds at Oxford

@dsti-xi7dl

Жыл бұрын

@@WalterTonetto DPhil ? Pedantic much ?

@claudeyaz

Жыл бұрын

@@WalterTonetto what's the upper degree there then? The guy could be mis remembering his professors degree. That's one ironic thing...after the fall of USSR...people stopped seeing the point of so much Russian study

@plekkchand

Жыл бұрын

@@zhanghaotian9510 My God, what a brilliantly witty remark.

Hollywood versions and remakes just cannot catch the ethos of the great novel and the Russian spirit. They treated the work as either another Downton Abbey or a shallow romance commercial story. Greatest version ever made to the book. Russians know their own things.

@monanggodang

Жыл бұрын

Which remake? The only Hollywood remake i can remember is by King Vidor in 1956 starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer. Yes, that Hollywood remake was not good and didnt catch the essence of the novel at all. This Russian version by Sergei Bondarchuk is The Definitive film of War And Peace thats brilliantly captured the essence and spirit of Tolstoy's epic novel.

@elenakozyrev7463

Жыл бұрын

1000%

@nelliethursday1812

Жыл бұрын

It's about emotions Russian people (I include myself proudly of Russian heritage) feel emotions on a level that defies meaning/explanation 😢😢❤😂

@bobilaforce8252

Жыл бұрын

I fully agree! You must be Russian in order to feel and play Bolkonski, Natasha or Kutusov….

@JustMe-ix1yf

Жыл бұрын

I am in love with this film. I'm so obsessed with it and happy I stumbled across it accidentally. I'm an American and what you've said is true and even I recognize it. It's perfection.

The cinematography in the ballroom waltz... truly a piece of cinema art at its best. Full of grace, romance, and beauty. 😍

@user-bz2rk4kr2q

9 ай бұрын

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

@warpeds

8 ай бұрын

it's like a fairy tale

Undoubtedly, the best historical movie ever done, without equal as professionalism , and I mean on both sides of the Atlantic!!!...

Am 73 and have heard about this film for decades. Was reading War And Peace in high school about the time that this film was 1st released. A special treat to finally watch this absolutely brilliant film today. Thank you!

Pierre absolutely not enjoying the ball it's the best scene. I love this film so much.

You cannot possibly describe such masterpiece in one little short comment. A feast to the eyes and mind.

Count Pierre Bezhukov is my idol. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky comes next. I read the book completely, it's a long book but I managed to finally complete it. and for me it's the greatest novel I have ever read. Thank you for uploading this movie. I am from the Philippines 🇵🇭

@Katharsis44-091

2 жыл бұрын

Russian literature is one of the most wonderful literatures in the world. I love Tschechow and Dostojewski. I am from Germany

@eugenxenon5662

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@ericfabian5080

11 ай бұрын

Greatest novel pala, ha! TAKSIL!!! Walang pagmamahal sa Inang Bayan! Noli Me Tangere at El Filibusterismo pa rin ang mga pinakadakilang nobela para sa mga Pilipino! Magagalit si GAT JOSE RIZAL sa'yo!

@inigobantok1579

7 ай бұрын

​@@ericfabian5080Rizal was inspired by War and Peace (for the cynicism), Les Miserables (for the hope) and The Count of Monte Cristo (for the anger) of his books. Those three traits are usually na makikita mo sa mga libro nya.

The first time I heard Pierre talked about him not being him, but the most handsome or wealthy man, and free, I didnot understand what he was talking about. Many years later, I realized that he actually was confessing. And it was a most beautiful confession.

@khvoya2584

9 ай бұрын

True so... oh what a pure soul he has, I can't hold back tears every time I watch this scene.

This monumental epic masterpiece, with closely intimate scenes and vast panoramic vistas both radiating with equal beauty and grandeur, is the greatest film ever made.

By far the best film version ever. The entrance of the Tsar in the ballroom is one the most grandiose scenes ever.

@DavidErdody

2 жыл бұрын

10:40

@truthterrain3484

Жыл бұрын

UNBELIEVABLE

@tutnetam

Жыл бұрын

Nope, I liked 2007 and 2016 versions much better

@elenakozyrev7463

Жыл бұрын

@@tutnetam That means you absolutely foreign to Russian spirit in general and Lev Tolstoy's greatest novel in particular. What to say? Sorry, that people can't tell a difference between the masterpiece and something atterly incompatible to one.

@nadya671

Жыл бұрын

​@@elenakozyrev7463 Мне вот голливудская версия Доктора Живаго с Омаром Шарифом кажется очень талантливым. Пока никто не переплюнул.

There are so many luminous cinematic moments in this movie. It's a true masterpiece.

They don’t make the movies like this anymore, really enjoyed seeing this classic piece of historical movie and the actors, so beautiful and charming.

This is one of the best films ever made ever. I watched it 55 years ago. The Russian version is far superior to the American. Read the book countless times. Thank you for uploading

@gchukma

6 ай бұрын

Haven't a clue how many times I've read War and Peace. I didn't start reading in earnest until I was 30 or so I'm 70 now and this novel was the first.

@georgesclermont1911

4 ай бұрын

I read it for the first time when I was 18 and reread it a few times. Watching that movie sent me back. (70 years later)! I feel so familiar iwth all the characters and still turn the pages. A true masterpiece@@gchukma

@cyanide4u539

Ай бұрын

Agree with you, this is the best adaptation of War & Peace.

Each time I read / watch I find something new … unfortunately young today grew up on “graphic novels” .. this why we collapsed

The word epic was invented for this production and Russia. Bliss.🇬🇧

@jhtsurvival

2 жыл бұрын

This is a great production and there are certain gears that have come from Russia no doubt but I would not consider the current Russian Government epic

@treninjector2245

Жыл бұрын

@@jhtsurvival go enjoy marvel or superman then, you dont deserve good cinematography.

@jhtsurvival

Жыл бұрын

@@treninjector2245 lol tf.. can you read

I watch it once a year. It is such a beautiful work of art.

This movie is absolutely incredible. Restoration work is beautiful.

My siblings and I read all four volumes of Lev Tolstoy’s great work of literature translated into Vietnamese when we were middle schoolers during the war, and watched Sergei Bondarchuk’s adapted cinema masterpiece years later. Till now, this version is, to me, the best film adaptation of Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

@sarasamaletdin4574

2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen other versions so I can’t compare, but this still leaves out so much about things like religion and fianances and war from the book. And characters relationships with watch other aren’t well explained. I expected more when this film is so long.

@jiffyyoyo6253

Жыл бұрын

My mother used to read War And Peace in Russian when she put me to bed. I remembered I was around two years old. The book was very thick. It did not matter what my mother read, as long as, she was there when I fall asleep.

@eugenxenon5662

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 🙏

@user-hd6jg3nw5l

Жыл бұрын

​@@jiffyyoyo6253 Любите, свою мама! Они, наши ангелхронители! 🎉🎉🎉

@dorothybolitho4337

10 ай бұрын

@@jiffyyoyo6253 a,

Spaciba Mosfilm for this masterpiece! This is indeed The definitive film version of Tolstoy' War and Peace! I feel the film, the director, the scriptwriter, the crew, the cast and everyone involved, really captured the spirit and essence of Tolstoy book. Brilliant!

I read the novel multiple times; this film gave me almost similar feeling as I get while reading the novel . Well-made movie!!!!!

To me, this cinema masterpiece conveys authentically the gists of Lev Tolstoy’s original great masterwork.

How did the film maker mobilise such an enormous cast. This is breathtakingly extravagant.

@scott4259

2 жыл бұрын

The USSR Minister of Culture wanted this movie made and put all the resources of the state behind it.

@jamesdouglas7345

Жыл бұрын

So true. Then where do all the extravagant costumes and props end up?

@BoatLoadsofDope

Жыл бұрын

The red army participated, that's how.

@tairastuart

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdouglas7345 They still keep them. Mosfilm storage

@vasilek_08

9 ай бұрын

​@@scott4259далеко не все.

Hollywood during its golden era and in its Sunday best, couldn't come close to the excess and extravagance of some scenes in this epic production that made Cinema the Super Art that it is...Not for lack of trying either!...

@qrco163

2 жыл бұрын

for real soviet cinema is really outstanding, the editing is highly immaginative yet it doesn't diverge from the plot at all. Beautiful to the eye and mind at the same time

@ComboMuster

2 жыл бұрын

How true. Truly epic, such masterpieces could never ever be made like this again. A feast to the eyes. Not to forget the actors, not least the director.

2 жыл бұрын

They hired the director to direct Waterloo.

@eugenxenon5662

Жыл бұрын

Truth 👏

@BadBoy-bt6lb

9 ай бұрын

​@The director played Pierre in this film adaptation .

There is so much to say, perhaps, but what? This is such a belated revelation, the incredible professional efforts in casting, presenting, cinematography, all aspects of costume, dress, hair, features, dance and movement, representation sufficient to amaze and please and convince. It is impossible to imagine a huge people active version today, costs and political problems being so crushing, This is perhaps so hugely good, so unique, even if all is so, that it might be the best ever work of art, real satisfyimg art, ever made for screens in the "old days." The ballroom and dance alone....

Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace' is the best film ever made. At least for me. It is normal that others think differently because tastes are different, just like people... There are many genres, and the time when they were created, and there are many superbly made films in the world of art...

Потрясающая экранизация романа Толстого ,Наташа здесь бесподобно сыграна Людмилой Савельевой -никто не сыграл Наташу лучше ее ! Браво Смотрю с наслажденим ,настоящий шедевр Бондарчука Спасибо за видео

One of the greatest things among the many many great things about this film is that it isn’t dumbed down and doesn’t talk down to its audience, as so many films do nowadays. The director correctly assumed that the audience he was creating this for wasn’t a room full of drooling idiots and used the “show don’t tell” method of directing to perfection. It’s not over saturated with a non stop mass of messy clunky choppy sloppy pathetic inappropriate grade school level dialogue. He’s intelligent enough to allow the picture to breathe, let the characters just be and let his work speak to us in subtle ways, humanly, body language, eye contact, vocal tone, music, lighting etc. it gives you time to take it all in, letting you think…& feel… without the contemporary practice of smashing your face into the screen nonstop with really poorly written dialogue, especially expository dialogue. So in other words, this movie is not made for our TikTok generation, which doesn’t seem to know the difference between a man and a woman, how many months are in a year, or in the case of famous comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler, a person who believes she’s so smart, important and correct that she will tell you her political opinions, in an attempt to influence your vote, yet somehow doesn’t know that the sun and the moon are two different celestial objects!?! WTF? She has mentioned this many times, so to paraphrase her… “until I was in my thirties, I didn’t know that the sun and the moon were different objects in the sky. I just thought when the sun went down it came back up as the moon” (it’s on KZread if you doubt what I’m saying). I kind of went off the script a bit there lol! I guess what I am saying is that I really love this film! It’s so unique, so refreshing, it’s somber and dark yet bright and joyful! It makes you despair for humanity and still shows us the best of humanity! How many films can make you really think, feel, hate, love, cry and then clap for joy!? That, in my humble opinion is the sign of an amazing work of art… of cinema. 🤓😱😭😊😢😂😮😅💀👏👏👏👏👏👏 Bravo! Bravo! ❤ Encore! Encore! 🎉

The young lady at around minute 18-20 dances exquisitely; like an Angel, a delight to behold, beautiful and artistic.

Oh, the dancing scene at the uncle's house, what a masterpiece!! And I never, never thought a movie could capture the magical, fantastic nostalgia mood of that conversation just before the mummers. But it did, it does! And the Anatole episode, and Pierre and Natasha's conversation at the end - simply perfect. I'm in awe. It's even better than part one.

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful film. Amazing story and culture.

Natasha's dancing is extraordinary, but of course, in real life the actress was a ballerina in St.Petersburg. So graceful movements and perfect acting! No one else was able to play Natasha Rostova as well as her and never will! The whole production of this beautiful Leo Tolstoy story is phenomenal! I can never get tired to watch it over and over again.

A masterpiece. The best novel has the best movie.

I saw the first part of this film in 1969 on the big screen , I was getting ready to go in to the Army . I never did see the second part on the big screen , so many years ago ,

The acting in this film is superb.

Magnificent. Emotionally powerful.

Simply a masterpiece! I watch them every year and the amazement and feeling never falter a bit ❤❤❤

@user-bz2rk4kr2q

Жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy made into this film is a great pleasure to everyone 😀an epic of all time

Great russian movie. Better than hollywood. Keep giving such films.🥰🙏🇷🇺☦️

World familar & best classic novel ❤❤❤

Imagine how peaceful it must have felt to live in a world before telephones, recorded music , radio. ...

@OLEG-gt2yt

6 ай бұрын

отключи все и живи

@woofkaf7724

Күн бұрын

размечтался. пахать надо было с утра до ночи в неприятных условия, если не богач

This is my absolute favorite of the whole series. This part alone shows character arcs of the three major characters.

@mutahmarriagecounselor2272

5 ай бұрын

I am really bored while I'm being tyrannized here so I guess we think alike 😂😂

@aishabintabubakr4944

5 ай бұрын

@@mutahmarriagecounselor2272 Lol. Definitely a movie to watch when that's happening

Amazing, amazing, amazing....what a wonderful film

I read the book and savoured the pages over two and a half months. I have watched a few different films of War and Peace. This is my favourite. Each film made has to choose to focus on some aspects of the story while leaving out others. It is why I watched several productions. Some take great liberties in the story telling but I really like the characters portrayed here. It is good to read the book to clarify aspects though I like some of Tolstoy's insights and concepts. His work is what he created written in the way he wanted to express the story of his work. Each adaptation also gives the insight of the director and producers. No one can reproduce the million reasons why people lived and participated as they did in the events of the story. A range of insights given by many artists are all worthy of respect for their work in producing film to the written work. People are complex, insightful and can act in contradictory ways to their principles as individuals. When together in groups ( Tolstoys hives) factors impact them from the most ancient parts of their being. Violence, war and unthinkable actions are determined beyond normal human choice. Intelligent people dont ignore history and are bond to repeat historical mistakes. It is coded in parts of their being in ways that can not be understood. His insights are so relevant to todays world. Just look around. Tolstoy said that people have the view to always look back and think that they had a choice, as was part of a human need to morally justify the actions of war. Always after the unthinkable has occured.

@BadBoy-bt6lb

9 ай бұрын

The most important thing is the portraits of those times.

@kangakid5984

9 ай бұрын

@@BadBoy-bt6lbyes those times tell tales for life

Thank you Mosfilm for giving me the greatest pleasure in watching the first two episodes. This is indeed a masterpiece of the cinema and a very welcome antidote to the rubbish that is currently made in Hollywood where I live. I eagerly await the next episode.

Only Russian directors and actors can understand our classic and Russian national characters.

@akap_987

7 ай бұрын

Just the sheer beauty, depth and complexity is hard to comprehend for us mortals❤️

Absolument merveilleux. J' étais très jeune quand j'ai lu l' œuvre de Léon Tolstoi pour la première fois. J'ai lu et relu. Entre-temps j'ai vue cette magnifique production qui ma tenue presque immobile durent toutes les projections de 6 heures. Sergei Bondarchouk, Liudmilla Savelieva et tous sont absolument parfait. Il y a que les Russes qui possèdent cette âme qui comprend la vie, les valeurs les interactions entre l'être et lE devoir d'être à des profondeurs que la plupart de chez nous n'y arrivent pas à comprendre et encore moins de sentirent. Merci beaucoup pour ce partage de ce chef d'œuvre.

I want to see this great film, because I'm is a fans of Leo Tolstoy 's novels.

Been waiting for this, thanks, the direction and camera work is breathtaking, I was at the ball.

Sergey Bondarchuk and Ludmila Savelyeva,a dream from another time.

The greatest movie ever

Bravo! Look to the parts that follow. The series greatly enhances reading Tolstoy, all 1200+ pages. Thank you, Mosfilm!

Thank you so much, Mosfilm, for posting Part Two. What a lovely surprise to enjoy this weekend!

Как актуально сейчас звучит: "Началась война. Совершилось противное человеческому разуму и всей человеческой природе событие". How relevant it sounds now: "The war has begun. An event contrary to human reason and all human nature has taken place."

@BadBoy-bt6lb

9 ай бұрын

Run. You don’t have to fight for your country. Just run)

@user-od5fh3gn4d

8 ай бұрын

History repeats itself.

Once again subtitles are superior to dubbing , a few years ago the BBC did a production of War and Peace and the actor playing Pierre looked like a sixteen year old but the actor playing Pierre in this film is perfect casting . The music is brilliant especially the ballroom scene

@Spinus-

Жыл бұрын

Пьера Безухова играет сам режиссёр фильма, Сергей Бондарчук.

@alexandrkucherov7950

Жыл бұрын

Pierre Bezukhov is played by the director of the film, Sergei Bondarchuk.

@buckhurst9122

Жыл бұрын

Pierre is 20 is the novel, not pre-retirement age…

@zs3101

10 ай бұрын

@@buckhurst9122 Look deeper! Although Pierre was 20 years old but in his soul and his mind he was mature, wise like an old man. That is why in Soviet version Pierre looks reflect his inner state.

@khvoya2584

9 ай бұрын

Yes, exactly. Even Russians themselves say "Why a cast in the film was so old?". I'm Russian, and I adored this cast... It just feels right. Even in the book itself characters don't act like 20 year old infantile dumbs. They act wisely and thoughtfully, their inner age feels older. So yeah... I can't even take young Pierre's casts seriously tbh. Bondarchuck made me fall in love with him :)

Wonderful surprise, much appreciated! Thank you for the update of these masterpieces!🙏❤️🎞

@Kimllg88

2 жыл бұрын

Its a gift! XXX

Thanks for this excellent quality version.

Fantastic

This story is 200 yrs old Napoleonic wars. 🤺💐

Stunning.

42:14 i love how this sequence is in the wolfs perspective

Thank you for this magnificent post. A life-renewing experience.

Brilliant! Thanks so much for uploading this!

Thank you for sharing this masterpiece of Russian cinema. It would be great if there will be different subtitles in the Future….✨🌈🧑🏼‍🎨🎨🎭🌈✨🎬

@eugenxenon5662

Жыл бұрын

100% all languages

Wow, that ballroom scene is incredible! Appropriately so, because it's a gem in a book full of them.

come detto piu' volte questo film e magico , Tikhonov magnifico con Savelieva fanno una stupenda coppia ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

She's that girl! The girl with those eyes! The girl who saved Marcello Mastroianni from frozen death in the very beautiful film "Sunflower". She is so beautiful in that film. Lyudmila Savelyeva

Amazing work they did reviving this film! Beautiful! Great movie! Epic in every sense!❤ You couldn’t even make this film in Hollywood, it would be too expensive.

Thank you very much. Looking forward to this masterpiece of cinema.

I think i am going to read that book again.i read it,eons ago on my days off sitting in the Champ de Mars,by the Eiffel tower,lol some came to me but not all,i have to refresh my memories😊

Amazing...Read the book when I was 15 years old, not fully grasping it all...I cried at least 5 times , by end of Part Two...

Very much appreciated, hope you can eventually upload the remaining episodes

thanks. can't wait for the next part. waiting :)

Banderchuk filmed the great novel keeping its minute details in his mind. That’s why the film becomes a masterpiece. Never mind Tolstoy and Bandarchuk were almost equally talented in their respective fields.

Ustedes están pidiendo la parte 2,3, y 4. Yo también pero desearía que fuera subtitulada en castellano, muchas gracias.

The avoidance is saddening especially if they both love each act and not speak but then he talks about investigating before marriage and yet he doesn't even date her to know her?!?! Confusion made by ones self.

Una muestra del excelente cine Soviético

Самая достойная экранизация "Войны и Мира" Пересматриваю раз десятый наверно. Сергей Бондарчук - гений, актеры мои любимые, просто бальзам для души.

This is a truly epic film. The imagery alone tells the story and needs to watched multiple times to be fully enjoyed. Thank you Mosfilms for bringing this to the whole world.

The color used makes great atmosphere

Brilliant movie, perhaps the best I've ever seen. Two languages I so wish I had been taught, Russian and French.

@user-bz2rk4kr2q

Жыл бұрын

Привет, привет, hello 👍

The man playing Pierre is the director, Sergei Bondarchuk.

Amazing. Thank you

This is the life we all would have had if no for Iphone or Ipad🤣

Krásný film.

Que pena privar a los espectadores que no comprendemos el idioma, Por favor pongan los subtitulos en español. Gracias

That woman is so pretty.

I'm wonna dancing 🌺 Natasha Rostova forever 🌺

1:36:20 Best part... 👍

Love it! So much better than the one Hollywood made.

This looked like a real wolf hunt

"WHERE DID, HOW, DID THIS GIRL EDUCATED BY A FRENCH GOVERNESS, LEARN THE RUSSIAN SPIRIT". This was beautiful. Tolstoy was raised in an aristocratic way, but his heart always went out to the common, simple Russian.

I am Egyptian. My first language is Arabic. I do not understand Russian, but I speak English. I came here to escape reading the huge novel, but I did not understand all the translation well for some reason! However, I can sense how wonderful the story is. I think I will return to continue reading the novel, I was certain that no one can express a nation except its owners.

47:40 Best part

Please can sombody tell me waht music piece / symphonie is that at 01:08:55 until 01:10:52 in the Background played by the operas Orchestra. I love this piece so much but i couldt find it at all. I would very pleasured to hear this in clear 🙏

@user-qh3ug2hi8o

Жыл бұрын

"Coronation of Poppeya"

Wow 😍😍😍

39:41 For clumsy hunting behavior, a serf servant could yell at a nobleman without any consequences or indignation on his part.

I ADORE READING

Spasiba! 😊

Me parece un error publicar con subtítulos fijos en inglés. ¿Piensan en un futuro ampliar los idiomas disponibles?