War and peace [videorecording] / a Paramount release ; a Ponti-De Laurentiis Production ; produced by Dino De Laurentiis ; directed by King Vidor ; adaptation, Bridget Boland ... [et al.].
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FilmPublisher number: 05626 | ParamountLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2002].Description: 1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792180488
- 9780792180487
- Director of photography, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision newsreel footage of the actual events. Still, the film falters dramatically, principally because of a lumpy script and King Vidor's surprisingly lustreless direction. In addition, the casting is wildly consistent: for example, while Audrey Hepburn is flawless as Natasha, Henry Fonda is far too "Yankeefied" as the introspective Pierre. Proving too long and unwieldy for most audiences, War and Peace died at the box office; far more successful was the epic, scrupulously faithful 1968 version, filmed in the Soviet Union. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features: theatrical trailers.
Director of photography, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota.
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oscar Homolka, Anita Ekberg, John Mills.
Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, the film centers around disenchanted aristocrat and unhappily married Pierre and Prince Andrei, who both are in love with an innocent young woman, Natasha.
MPAA rating: PG, for violence.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono, widescreen format.
In English with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.