Story about War and Peace / Voyna i mir / Война и мир / 战争与和平
Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and int...
Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 againt the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united againt the enemy. The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
