![]() ![]() Presence of Audrey Hepburn cannot breathe enough life into them to make this version of WarĪnd Peace compelling. Today's standards, the writing, staging and acting are so stiffly unconvincing that even the Of its running time, tremulous emotion predominates over military history. Massive casts of extras, the most extended do not occur until the latter half of the film. Although Vidor was able to stage several impressive battle scenes with The choice decreed by producers Dino De LaurentiisĪnd Carlo Ponti was to focus on the tormented love stories played out against the background of Story was required to achieve a screenplay (credited to six writers, including Vidor) that could beĬovered in just under three and a half hours. Release directed by Sergey Bondarchuk, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language filmĪnd, at over seven hours, is more than twice the length of Vidor's. Peace is also a treatise on storytelling.īy general consensus, the best filmed adaptation of War and Peace to date is the 1966 Russian ![]() As much as it is a multi-part story, War and Large stretches of theīook are devoted to Tolstoy's own theory of history. Journals, doing the kind of factual sifting usually performed by historians. Interviewing survivors of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, reading contemporary letters and The book's impressive accuracy arose from its author's pure research, more journalism than art, Philosophy that the author himself disputed that it could accurately be called a novel. Massive tome is one of the longest novels ever written, and it embraces so much history and The first screen version of the Russian master's epic, but it hasn't aged well. King Vidor's 1956 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace has the distinction of being Reviewed by Michael Reuben, January 18, 2015 ![]()
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