War and Peace (1972)

Original title

War & Peace

Genre

drama, war & politics

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 20 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel about Russian aristocrats during the Napoleonic Wars. It follows Pierre Bezukhov, Natasha Rostova, and Andrei Bolkonsky as their lives are changed by war, love, and loss.

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What happens

War and Peace is a British television dramatisation of the 1869 Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace. This 20-episode series began on 28 September 1972. The BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as Pierre Bezukhov, Morag Hood is Natasha Rostova, Alan Dobie is Andrei Bolkonsky and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for each of them and their families. The twenty-part serial was produced by David Conroy and directed by John Davies. Conroy's aim was to transfer the characters and plot from Tolstoy's novel to television drama to run for a duration of 15 hours. Scripted by Jack Pulman, this version of War and Peace contained battle sequences, which were filmed in Yugoslavia. The theme tune is the Russian imperial anthem, played by the band of the Welsh Guards. Hopkins received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance, and the production designer Don Homfray won a BAFTA for his work on the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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