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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
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.
- Year: 1966
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: War, Drama, History
- Studio: Mosfilm
- Keyword: period drama, 19th century, russian literature
- Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
- Cast: Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Golovko, Oleg Tabakov