
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
Top Billed Cast

Ludmila Savelyeva
Natasha Rostova

Sergey Bondarchuk
Pierre Bezukhov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Andrei Bolkonsky

Viktor Stanitsyn
Ilya Andreyevich Rostov

Kira Golovko
Countess Rostova
Featured Crew

Sergey Bondarchuk
Director

Aleksandr Shelenkov
Director of Photography
Anatoly Petritsky
Director of Photography
Yu-Lan Chen
Director of Photography

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Original Music Composer

Leo Tolstoy
Novel

Sergey Bondarchuk
Screenplay
Vasiliy Solovyov
Screenplay
Tatiana Likhacheva
Editor