7.882 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestAs Napoleon marches into Moscow, the Rostovs rush to leave the city.
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.
Acting
Paul Dano's Pierre — a disaster man you cannot stop rooting for.
Cinematography
Candlelit ballrooms and burning Moscow shot like oil paintings.
Costume
Natasha's transformation through fabric — girlhood to womanhood in silk and sorrow.
Paul Dano
Pierre Bezukhov
Lily James
Natasha Rostova
James Norton
Andrei Bolkonsky
Gillian Anderson
Anna Pavlovna Scherer
Jessie Buckley
Marya Bolkonskaya
Aneurin Barnard
Boris Drubetskoy
Greta Scacchi
Natalya Rostova
Aisling Loftus
Sonya Rostova
Tom Burke
Fedor Dolokhov
Tuppence Middleton
Helene Kuragina
Adrian Edmondson
Ilya Rostov
Brian Cox
Mikhail Kutuzov
Jack Lowden
Nikolai Rostov
Stephen Rea
Vassily Kuragin
Ken Stott
Bazdeev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The BBC adaptation filmed the entire series in Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia — the first time a major Western production had access to Russian locations since the Cold War.
Russian critics initially sneered at 'Downton Abbey with snow,' then grudgingly admitted Paul Dano captured Pierre's spiritual confusion better than most Russian adaptations.
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