War and Peace (Blu-ray) PG
The Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 3 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 20, 2015
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda & Mel Ferrer | |
Performer: | Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oskar Homolka, Anita Ekberg, Helmut Dantine, Tullio Carminati, Barry Jones, Anna Maria Ferrero, Wilfrid Lawson, May Britt, Jeremy Brett, Sean Barrett & John Mills | |
Directed by | King Vidor | |
Edited by | Leo Cattozzo | |
Screenwriting by | Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby, King Vidor, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini & Ivo Perilli | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Art Direction by | Mario Chiari | |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Cardiff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
A stilted and ponderous epic about Napoleon's failed Russian invasion of 1812.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
War and Peace can look intimidating on a library shelf, but this particular version is engaging, fresh and feels nothing like homework. An opportunity to see it in a theater like this doesn't come around often.
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amNewYork
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Alas, the human stories that Tolstoy told so significantly in the book are sketchy and inconsequential, despite the time devoted to them.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Spectacle galore starring Hepburn and Fonda.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of Russian society, he was able to draw on his own experience as a soldier in this campaign, capturing the chaos and confusion of battle in its terrible immediacy. Both the immensely wealthy Pierre and his friend Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer), members of an aristocracy of warriors, become disenchanted with the unheroic truth of war. As he says, "The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and darkness." The reflective, unhappily married Pierre is a seeker after truth, wracked with doubt about himself, about the purpose of the war, and about the destiny of the human race. It is only in his love for the enchanting Natasha (Audrey Hepburn) that the ruminative protagaonist can find the meaning that he sought for so long. The film suffers from a leaden script and the 54-year-old Fonda is seriously miscast, but it is worth watching for the excellence of the panoramic battle scenes alone, directed by Mario Soldati.