![]() ![]() It is a six-part adaptation of the 1869 novel War and Peace by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, written by Andrew Davies and directed by Tom Harper. For anyone interested in Napoleonic history, I also highly recommend Bondarchuk's Waterloo, from 1969/70.War & Peace is an historical drama television serial first broadcast on BBC One on 3 January 2016, produced by BBC Cymru Wales, in association with The Weinstein Company, Lookout Point and BBC Worldwide. This movie is highly recommended to any true lover of Tolstoy's book, who is interested in Napoleonic history or simply anyone who likes deep, moving, impressive movies. The broad scope of emotions, the grand scale of the aristocracy's parties with all their luxury, the battles with tens of thousands of extras, the impressive burning of Moscow, the actors who don't act but live the plot, it all adds to the wonderful experience of this film. But it isn't the faithful rendition of the material alone that makes this movie so unique and wonderful. In more than one instance I had the feeling that my imagination had been brought to the screen. The actors, the locations, must have been picked very carefully, because they are very close to how they are depicted in the book. ![]() But never before lived a movie up to the images of my mind like this one. ![]() ![]() Still, the seven hours' version still omits many facets (including the almost satirical epilogue) of the original 1600 pages work of Leo Tolstoy. I was prepared for a similar experience before I saw the two-part movie by Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk. Likewise, I found the 1954 movie War and Peace very disappointing. You have a picture of the scenes, locations and characters in your mind, and hardly ever a movie comes close to those images. When you see the movie that adapts your favorite work of literature you have high expectations. ![]()
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