War and Peace (1956)

Director:

King Vidor

Writers:

Leo Tolstoy (novel)
Bridget Boland (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

21 agosto 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | History | Romance | War

Frase comercial:

The Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen!

Plot:

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Plot Keywords:

19th Century | Cossack | Wounded Soldier | Cuckold | Alcoholic

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Misses the essence of the book

Cast

Audrey Hepburn	...	Natasha Rostova
Henry Fonda	...	Pierre Bezukhov
Mel Ferrer	...	Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Vittorio Gassman	...	Anatol Kuragin
Herbert Lom	...	Napoleon
Oskar Homolka	...	Field Marshal Kutuzov (as Oscar Homolka)
Anita Ekberg	...	Helene Kuragina
Helmut Dantine	...	Dolokhov
Tullio Carminati	...	Prince Vasili Kuragin
Barry Jones	...	Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov
Milly Vitale	...	Lise
Lea Seidl	...	Countess Rostov
Anna-Maria Ferrero	...	Mary Bolkonsky (as Anna Maria Ferrero)
Wilfrid Lawson	...	Prince Bolkonsky (as Wilfred Lawson)
May Britt	...	Sonya Rostov

También conocida como:

Guerra e pace (Italy)
Guerra y la paz, La (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Guerra y paz (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for violence.

Duración:

208 min

País:

Italy | USA

Idioma:

English | Italian | Russian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Perspecta Stereo | Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Italy:T | West Germany:12 (f) | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:16 | Australia:G | Chile:18 | Finland:K-14 | Spain:18 | USA:PG | Canada:PG

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

May Britt and Anita Ekberg had their voices dubbed by others.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Natasha is sitting next the dying Prince Andrei's bed, she leans her both hands on her legs. In the next shot, when Kolya enters in the room, her right hand is on the top of the bed pole.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Natasha Rostov: [to Pierre] You're like this house. You suffer, you show your wounds, but you stand.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Rec: Sensou to heiwa (#1.7)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Die Rose von Nowgorod

Misses the essence of the book

Quite a disappointing story about some people that get involved with each other. This makes the movie some swooning story about love (one might say it becomes some sort of Jane Austen story, which is not altogether bad, but has nothing to do with Tolstoy) It fails to capture the book's most beautiful moments: -Rostow's 'tremendous courage' when he flee-ed from advancing enemy forces after being wounded by his own horse. (Which showed the stupidity of war) -Pierre's duel (which is included, but not in very satisfying way (for instance, it misses Pierre's certainty that he would die in the duel and his flirt with death)) and the following conversion to freemasonry

What is worse, the film goes against the spirit of the book, when it emphasis's the prophesying moments. (While the book shows the exact counter case: the complete unpredictability where things would go next) Although I wouldn't name this a good effort to make a film out of 'War and Peace', I don't think it can be done in any satisfying way.