Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestAs Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he's marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party.
War and Peace is a 2007 television miniseries broadcast in Belgium and in France in four episodes during October and November 2007. An international co-production of France, Italy and Russia, the ensemble cast are of various nationalities. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Cinematography
Actual Russian locations sell the scope Tolstoy demanded.
Acting
Clémence Poésy's Natasha breaks your heart in episode three.
Creators
Enrico Medioli, Leo Tolstoy, Gavin Scott, Lorenzo Favella
Alexander Beyer
Pierre Bezukhov
Clémence Poésy
Natascha Rostova
Alessio Boni
Andrej Bolkonski
Malcolm McDowell
Prince Bolkonski
Valentina Cervi
Maria Bolkonskaya
Brenda Blethyn
Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
Hannelore Elsner
Countess Rostova
Dmitriy Isaev
Nikolai Rostov
Toni Bertorelli
Vasily Kuragin
Vladimir Ilin
Kutuzov
Andrea Giordana
Comte Rostov
Scali Delpeyrat
Napoleon
Hary Prinz
Denisov
Elodie Frenck
Lise
Frédéric Gorny
Ramballe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first War and Peace adaptation to film inside the actual Kremlin, secured through Italian-Russian diplomatic co-production wrangling.
Russian critics savaged the 'European' cast as cultural imperialism — yet it became oddly popular there, perhaps proving Tolstoy transcends nationality after all.
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