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War and Peace (Italian: Guerra e pace) is a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. It is directed and co-written by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti for Paramount Pictures .
War and Peace was the first Soviet picture to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was the longest film ever to receive an Academy Award [94] until O.J.: Made in America won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017.
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars , the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy.
Princess Yelena "Hélène" Vasilyevna Kuragina (Russian: Елена "Эле́н" Васи́льевна Кура́гина) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace and its various cinematic adaptations.
Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Болконский) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. He is the son of famed Russian general Nikolai Bolkonsky, who raises Andrei and his sister Maria Bolkonskaya on a remote estate. Andrei is best friends with Pierre Bezukhov.
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
Count [1] Pyotr "Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov [2] (/ b ɛ. zj uː ˈ k ɒ v /; Russian: Пьер Безу́хов, Пётр Кири́ллович Безу́хов) is the fictional protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace.
Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (Russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, [1] its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as well. [2]