War and Peace NEW Classic Blu-Ray Disc King Vidor Audrey Hepburn

Description: BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brand new, official studio-released Blu-Ray of this great film, imported from Spain ( War & Peace ) This is a Blu-Ray Disc, Region A/B/C. This Blu-Ray Disc will play on any standard Blu-Ray player. Blu-Ray Discs will not play on any regular (not Blu-Ray) DVD player. Blu-Ray Discs will not play on any regular (not Blu-Ray) DVD player. This item does not contain pornographic material and may be lawfully sold to and viewed by minors. OUR OTHER PRODUCTS AND POLICIES o If you found this DVD/Blu-Ray to your liking, you will probably find one or more other rare items that we sell to your tastes. 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If these steps don't work, then unfortunately subtitles are not optional. o We now offer FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world! FILM DETAILS Alternate Title: War & Peace Language Selections:Chinese ( Subtitles ) Czech ( Subtitles ) Dutch ( Subtitles ) English ( Dolby TrueHD ) English ( Mono ) English ( Subtitles ) French ( Mono ) French ( Subtitles ) German ( Mono ) German ( Subtitles ) Hindi ( Subtitles ) Japanese ( Subtitles ) Korean ( Subtitles ) Portuguese ( Mono ) Portuguese ( Subtitles ) Romanian ( Subtitles ) Slovenian ( Subtitles ) Spanish ( Dolby TrueHD ) Spanish ( Mono ) Spanish ( Subtitles ) Turkish ( Subtitles ) Product Origin/Format:Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C ) Running Time:208 min Aspect Ratio:Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) Special Features:Interactive Menu Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:Country: Italy ( Region: Italy, Greece ) Country: United States ( Region: USA, Canada ) Directed By:King Vidor Written By:Leo Tolstoy Bridget Boland Actors:Audrey Hepburn ..... Natasha Rostova Henry Fonda ..... Pierre Bezukhov Mel Ferrer ..... Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Vittorio Gassman ..... Anatol Kuragin Herbert Lom ..... Napoleon Oskar Homolka ..... Field Marshal Kutuzov Anita Ekberg ..... Helene Kuragina Helmut Dantine ..... Dolokhov Tullio Carminati ..... Prince Vasili Kuragin Barry Jones ..... Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov Milly Vitale ..... Lisa Bolkonskaya Lea Seidl ..... Countess Rostov Anna Maria Ferrero ..... Maria Bolkonskaya Wilfrid Lawson ..... Prince Bolkonsky May Britt ..... Sonia Rostova Synopsis:By 1812, Napoleon's forces controlled much of Europe. Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, prepares to face Napoleon's troops together with Austria. Among the Russian soldiers are Count Nicholas Rostov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Count Pierre Bezukhov, a friend of Andrei's and self-styled intellectual who is not interested in fighting. Pierre's life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov, Nicholas's sister, but she is too young, so he gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, manipulative Princess Helene. The marriage ends when Pierre discovers his wife's true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. Months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year until Natasha turns 17. While Andrei is away on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin, a womanizer. Pierre saves Natasha by telling her of Anatole's past before she can elope with him. Napoleon invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself. War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision newsreel footage of the actual events. Still, the film falters dramatically, principally because of a lumpy script and King Vidor's surprisingly lustreless direction. In addition, the casting is wildly consistent: for example, while Audrey Hepburn is flawless as Natasha, Henry Fonda is far too 'Yankeefied' as the introspective Pierre. Proving too long and unwieldy for most audiences, War and Peace died at the box office; far more successful was the epic, scrupulously faithful 1968 version, filmed in the Soviet Union. 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