Which of the various film and television versions of War and Peace is better?

If Tolstoy's masterpiece "War and Peace" is the first one, it is of course the version shot by the Soviets in 1968. Although it seems that many effects are not good now, the director and actors' understanding of the original work can be said to be quite accurate, and the film was also a big production at that time.

War and Peace is recognized as a masterpiece in the history of world literature. Sketch the whole picture of Russian society in the period of 1805- 1820 with an extremely rare broad perspective and grand momentum. The complexity and delicacy of its characters, the tragic realism of war description and the profound three-dimensional social thinking all make it an arduous task to shoot this masterpiece.

1956, the Hollywood team led by Audrey Hepburn and henry fonda filmed many grand war scenes, but in the end they made this masterpiece into an old-school love story. It was not until 1968 that the Soviet Union at that time took five years to shoot this epic masterpiece, which really restored Tuoweng's charm on the screen.

The film lasts six and a half hours and is divided into four parts: Andre Bor Konski, Natasha Rostova, 18 12 and Pierre Bezukhov. Director Sergey Bundachuk asked the props department to produce a large number of costumes and sets in the early19th century. He was also highly faithful to the original works when portraying the main characters such as Natasha, Prince Andrey and Pierre, and his description of Russian aristocratic society in the post-war period was even more fruitful. However, the most shocking scene in the whole film is the battle of Borodino in 18 12, which is shown in detail in the third part.

This super-large-scale war drama is completely supported by real manpower and material resources. To this end, bondarchuk turned to the Soviet military for help, and dispatched nearly100000 extras, trying to make the number of people attending the performance equal to the actual number of people fighting between Russia and France. The investment in the whole film reached $6,543.8 billion, only $44 million compared with the contemporary Cleopatra, and it was regarded as the most expensive film in film history. War and Peace, which is far better than twice, is definitely the most expensive movie in history.

At that time, the biggest battle of Borodino between Russia and France was presented to the audience in such detail. This is the climax of a great war scene in film history, and no one can allocate such huge financial and human resources to support similar shooting plans.