- Complete original version of the picture presented with the original Russian
sound and with pertinent subtitles
- Info on Alexander I, Russian manor houses, liberation movement,
countryside, M.I. Kutuzov, classicism, Empire style
- Set sketches
- Behind-the-scenes featurette
- Interviews with actors Irina Skobtseva and Vassily Lanovoy,
cinematographer Anatoly Petritsky, and composer Vycheslav Ovchinnikov
- Interview with Mosfilm Studios president Karen Shakhnazarov
- Serge Bondarchuk documentary
- Leo Tolstoy documentary
- Photo album
- Cast and crew filmographies


** Winner of,
Best Foreign Language Film in 1968 Academy Awards
Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film in 1969 Golden Globes
Best Foreign Language Film in National Board of Review
Best Foreign Language Film in New York Film Critics Circle Award
Best Honorary Diploma in 1965 Venice International Film Festival

Like Tolstoy's novel, this epic-length War and Peace is rough going, but
worth the effort. Winner of the 1969 Academy Award� for Best Foreign
Language Film and widely considered the most faithful adaptation of
Tolstoy's classic, Sergei Bondarchuk's massive Soviet-Italian coproduction
was seven years in the making, at a record-setting cost of $100 million.
Bondarchuk himself plays the central role of Pierre Bezukhov, buffeted by
fate during Russia's tumultuous Napoleonic Wars, serving as pawn and
philosopher through some of the most astonishing set pieces ever filmed.
Bondarchuk is a problematic director: interior monologues provide awkward
counterpoint to intimate dramas, weaving together the many classes and
characters whose lives are permanently affected by war. Infusions of '60s-
styled imagery clash with the film's period detail; it's an anomalous
experiment that doesn't really work. Undeniably, however, the epic battle
scenes remain breathtakingly unique; to experience the sheer scale of this
film is to realize that such cinematic extravagance will never be seen again