War and Peace

(1956)

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| Film | Italy | Colour | Drama, Romance, War | 3h 28min |
A
| Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer | Director: King Vidor

A Russian family’s adventures at the time of Napoleon’s invasion

Cast

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Audrey Hepburn
Natasha Rostova
Henry Fonda
Pierre Bezukhov
Mel Ferrer
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Vittorio Gassman
Anatol Kuragin
Photograph of Czech-British actor, Herbert Lom (1)
Napoleon
Oskar Homolka
Field Marshal Kutuzov
Anita Ekberg
Helene Kuragina
Helmut Dantine
Dolokhov
Tullio Carminati
Prince Vasili Kuragin
Barry Jones
Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov
Milly Vitale
Lisa Bolkonskaya
Lea Seidl
Countess Rostov
Anna Maria Ferrero
Maria Bolkonskaya
Wilfrid Lawson
Prince Bolkonsky
May Britt
Sonia Rostova
Jeremy Brett
Nikolai Rostov
Patrick Crean
Denisov
Sean Barrett
Petya Rostov
Gertrude Flynn
Mariya Peronskaya
British actor John Mills wears a jacket and tie
Platon Karataev
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Reviews

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Despite miscasting and heavy dubbing, the pictorial parts of the précis of a gargantuan novel are powerful and exciting enough; the human side drags a little. (Halliwell’s)

Production

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King Vidor
Director / Writer (adaptation)
Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
Robert Westerby
Writer
Mario Camerini
Writer
Ivo Perilli
Writer
Bridget Boland
Writer (adaptation)
Ennio De Concini
Writer (adaptation)
Lev Tolstoy
Writer (based on the novel by)
Elizabeth Hill
Writer
Irwin Shaw
Writer