880-02 Sergeĭ Bondarchuk, Li͡udmila Savelʹeva, Vi͡acheslav Tikhonov, Irina Skobt͡seva, Viktor Stanit͡syn. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Summary:
Based on the book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the 'Great Patriotic War' of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The Russian people from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy culminating in the battle of Borodino. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
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