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★ 7.7/10 TMDB
1966-03-14
147 min
In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, 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 General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
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Billed Cast
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
Pierre Bezukhov
Ludmila Savelyeva
Natasha Rostova
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Lisa Bolkonskaya
Viktor Stanitsyn
Ilya Andreyevich Rostov
Kira Golovko
Countess Rostova
Oleg Tabakov
Nikolai Rostov
Nikolay Kodin
Petya Rostov
Sergei Yermilov
Petya Rostov
Irina Gubanova
Sonya
Anatoli Ktorov
Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
Antonina Shuranova
Princess Maria
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