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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965)

★ 7.5/10 147 min History, Romance, War, Drama Soviet Union Russian

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk

Novel: Leo Tolstoy
Screenplay by: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov

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In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, 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 General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.