War and Peace (1966)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | war and peace |
| Original title | Война и мир |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian ; scenic also French , German |
| Publishing year | 1966 (parts 1 and 2) 1967 (parts 3 and 4) |
| length | 432 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| script | Sergei Bondarchuk, Vasily Solovyov |
| music | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov |
| camera |
Anatoli Petritsky , Alexander Schelenkow |
| cut | Tatiana Likhacheva |
| occupation | |
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The four-part film War and Peace ( Russian Война и мир , Woina i mir ) was shot from 1965 to 1967 by the Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk based on the historical novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy . The Soviet version has a total running time of 432 minutes (about seven hours). The premiere of the first part took place on March 14, 1966, the fourth and final part was premiered on November 4, 1967. In the GDR, War and Peace had 2,225,649 visitors.
Questionable calculation methods resulted in production costs of 100 million US dollars , which today (2015) would correspond to 700 million dollars adjusted for inflation. That would make the film the most expensive so far. These figures are incorrect because producers reported in August 1967 that the total cost was exactly 8,291,712 rubles, or $ 9,213,013 at the exchange rate at the time.
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criticism
“Unlike Vidor's streamlined Hollywood version, Bondarchuk follows the epic narrative technique of the original almost verbatim and delivers a detailed counterpart to the wealth of material in the novel, impressed by the plasticity of the depiction of the milieu and the color of the time.”
"What is amazing about this film: (...) It remains tied to history, it shows history without any tendency."
“Although the manufacturers tried to reproduce the details true to detail, the work does not meet the demands of Tolstoy's original, neither in form nor in content. As a historical film with depth, however, it is recommended for ages 14 and up. "
Awards
- 1965: IFF Moscow Grand Prize for Best Film
- 1965: Award of the IFF Moscow for Lyudmila Michailowna Saweljewa as best actress
- 1968: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film
- 1969: Oscar for best foreign language film
- 1969: Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film
- 1969: Award of the National Board of Review for Best Foreign Language Film
DVD versions
Original sound with subtitles
The Russian original soundtrack can only be found on international editions, for example by RusCiCo or Artificial Eye , which are available in international mail order.
German speaking only
Since August 16, 2006, the film has also been available on DVD in Germany through Icestorm Entertainment . Icestorm Entertainment has been exploiting DEFA productions since 1998 and since 2003 also Russian classic films on DVD and video. The original soundtrack is missing in this War and Peace edition. You only find a German soundtrack. Various documentaries are on the DVD, including by film journalist Ralf Schenk and historian Jürgen Angelow . In addition to a contribution from the newsreel, Sergei Bondartschuk's press conference in Berlin and in the Babelsberg studios, you can also find the trailer for the film.
The German dubbed version was made by DEFA . Wito Eichel wrote the dubbed script , and Helmut Brandis was responsible for the dialogue .
| role | speaker |
|---|---|
| Natasha Rostova | Sigrid Göhler |
| Pierre Visitow | Günther Grabbert |
| Andrei Bolkonski | Winfried Wagner |
| Ilya Rostov | Siegfried Weiss |
| Countess Rostova | Sabine Krug |
| Nikolai Rostov | Carl-Hermann Risse |
| Sonia Rostova | Monika Lennartz |
| Nikolai Bolkonsky | Herwart Grosse |
| Lisa Bolkonskaya | Angelica Domröse |
| Dolokhov | Dieter Vienna |
| Maria Bolkonskaya | Barbara Adolph |
| Uncle of the Rostovs | Martin Flörchinger |
Youtube publication
In 2018 all parts were published on Youtube in HD resolution.
literature
- Olga Litvinova, Stefan Machura: War and Society: Multi-level analysis of the American and Soviet film adaptations of Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" . In: Stefan Machura, Rüdiger Voigt (Hrsg.): War in the film . Münster: LIT, 2005. ISBN 3-8258-8406-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Woina i Mir ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF file; 94 kB) . berlinale.de.
- ^ Society for German-Soviet Friendship . Free World : No. 27 (October) 1970. ISSN 0427-5217 . P. 8.
- ↑ Rasakov, Fëdor (2005). Naše Ljubimoe Kino ... o Vojne . Algoritm. ISBN 9785699128822 . P. 36.
- ↑ 0.9 ruble = 1 dollar, as of 1967. See: History of the ruble-dollar exchange rate ( MS Excel ; 103 kB) .
- ↑ War and Peace. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique No. 80/1967, p. 112
- ↑ War and Peace : Parts 1 ( Memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), 2 ( Memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), 3 ( Memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) and 4 ( Memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) March 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Progress-film.de.
Web links
- Война и мир (HD) фильм on YouTube film with engl. Subtitles
- War and Peace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Occupation of War and Peace on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)