In my continuing series of Top 5 war films, I’m covering movies that do not include American characters or U.S. armed forces.
‘War and Peace’ (1966/1967)
Poster for Russian-language “War and Peace.” (Continental Distributing)
One of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of the film medium, director-co-writer and leading-man Sergei Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace” has a running time of 431 minutes and was released in four parts between March 1966 and November 1967.
Still the most expensive Russian-produced film ever made, it went on to win multiple industry accolades including the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The fact that it received so much love during the height of the Cold War (and was funded in part by the Soviet government) makes it all the more impressive….