Also, I think Soviet cinema, at that point especially, was looking up to Hollywood.
“ ‘War and Peace,’ of all the novels, is kind of the most beloved, the most patriotic and nationalistic in a positive way. “When you talk about Russian literature, you talk about Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Gogol,” she says. Verlotsky says there were many reasons why the Soviet government approved the lavish Mosfilm production - one is ideological. “Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything collapsed - including the film industry. “I’m not sure what happened” to the 70mm version, says Verlotsky. the restoration was done with 35mm materials. Though “War and Peace” was one of the first films in the Soviet Union to be shot in 70-millimeter - called Sovscope 70 in the U.S. This isn’t the longest one, but not the shortest one.” Another one they submitted for the Oscar and the third one was when it was released theatrically in the U.S. “One was the original release in Russia, which was the longest version. “There are numerous cuts of this film,” says Alla Verlotsky, president of Seagull Films, a New York-based programmer and distributor of Russian cinema.
The film was originally released in the U.S. LACMA is screening Mosfilm’s restored version of the film in Russian with English subtitles. Bondarchuk plays Pierre Bezukgov, the awkward friend of the brave, stoic and handsome Prince Andrei, and Lyudmila Savelyeva is the beautiful Natasha. In Part 3, “The Battle of Borodino,” more than 100,000 real Soviet soldiers were used as extras.ĭirected, co-adapted and starring Sergei Bondarchuk, “War and Peace” explores - in a sometimes heavy-handed and confusing manner - life, love and death among the Russian nobility before and after the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Produced by the then Soviet Union’s Mosfilm for a staggering $100 million - somewhere near $700 million in today’s dollars - the film, based on Leo Tolstoy’s seminal novel, is a sweeping epic filled with breathtaking battle scenes, beautiful costumes and sets and spectacular vistas. The museum will screen the seven-hour 1968 Oscar-winning Russian film, “War and Peace,” in two parts Friday and Saturday evenings this month.
If you’ve got the time, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the movie.
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