Amazing! Colossal! And it’s good, too! ‘Gone With the Wind’ is a tempest in a teacup compared to this jaw-dropping adaptation of the Tolstoy classic: seven hours of artful splendor, passionate characters, map-altering politics and the biggest, most spectacular battle scenes ever filmed. Sergei Bondarchuck has it all in control; the new restoration gives Soviet show color and clarity we’ve never seen before. Two discs, four parts, no waiting. Cover charge may apply.
War and Peace
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 983
1965-67 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 422> min. / available through The Criterion Collection/ Street Date June 25, 2019 / 49.95
Starring: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, N. Tolkachyov.
Cinematography: Anatoli Petritsky, Aleksandr Shelenkov
Film Editor: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov
Original Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Written by Sergei Bondarchuk and Vasili Solovyov
from the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Thanks to the streaming of miniseries and the...
War and Peace
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 983
1965-67 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 422> min. / available through The Criterion Collection/ Street Date June 25, 2019 / 49.95
Starring: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, N. Tolkachyov.
Cinematography: Anatoli Petritsky, Aleksandr Shelenkov
Film Editor: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov
Original Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Written by Sergei Bondarchuk and Vasili Solovyov
from the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Thanks to the streaming of miniseries and the...
- 6/22/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Russian actor best known for his role as Bolkonsky in the epic War and Peace
The supremely handsome Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who has died aged 81, seemed born to play Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in Sergei Bondarchuk's magnificent War and Peace (1967), in which he carried off the difficult task of gaining sympathy for Tolstoy's melancholy, sardonic, aloof aristocrat.
According to the critic Roger Ebert: "All of the actors look a little larger, nobler and more heroic than life … perhaps Tikhonov comes closest with his chiselled face." The four-part, eight-hour, 70mm, $100m epic was deservedly awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1969, and Tikhonov was feted wherever it was shown.
Before War and Peace, Tikhonov had appeared in a dozen films since his debut in Sergei Gerasimov's The Young Guard (1948), which was among the better socialist realist films of the period. He played a passionate youth, one...
The supremely handsome Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who has died aged 81, seemed born to play Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in Sergei Bondarchuk's magnificent War and Peace (1967), in which he carried off the difficult task of gaining sympathy for Tolstoy's melancholy, sardonic, aloof aristocrat.
According to the critic Roger Ebert: "All of the actors look a little larger, nobler and more heroic than life … perhaps Tikhonov comes closest with his chiselled face." The four-part, eight-hour, 70mm, $100m epic was deservedly awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1969, and Tikhonov was feted wherever it was shown.
Before War and Peace, Tikhonov had appeared in a dozen films since his debut in Sergei Gerasimov's The Young Guard (1948), which was among the better socialist realist films of the period. He played a passionate youth, one...
- 12/11/2009
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Russian Actor Tikhonov Dead
Veteran Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov has died following a fatal heart attack on Friday, at the age of 81.
The star, who was hugely popular in his homeland, is best known for his role in 1968's Oscar-winning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
He began his training in 1945 and worked on the stage before landing his first film role in 1948. He later became well known in Russia for his leading role in It Happened in Penkovo a decade later.
He went on to film over 50 movies, and won a string of accolades for his talent, including the People's Artist of the Ussr in 1974 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1982.
As well as his turn as Prince Andrei Bolkonski in War And Peace, he also starred in another Oscar winner, Burnt by the Sun, in 1994.
He married fellow screen star Nonna Mordyukova in 1948, and had a son, who died in 1990. His second marriage to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova produced a daughter, who is also an actress.
The star, who was hugely popular in his homeland, is best known for his role in 1968's Oscar-winning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
He began his training in 1945 and worked on the stage before landing his first film role in 1948. He later became well known in Russia for his leading role in It Happened in Penkovo a decade later.
He went on to film over 50 movies, and won a string of accolades for his talent, including the People's Artist of the Ussr in 1974 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1982.
As well as his turn as Prince Andrei Bolkonski in War And Peace, he also starred in another Oscar winner, Burnt by the Sun, in 1994.
He married fellow screen star Nonna Mordyukova in 1948, and had a son, who died in 1990. His second marriage to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova produced a daughter, who is also an actress.
- 12/5/2009
- WENN
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