War and Peace is the first English-language film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the cinematography by Jack Cardiff. The film was made by Dino de Laurentiis Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer, along with Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom and Anita Ekberg, in one of her first breakthrough roles. It was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Foreign... Film and it had Academy Awards nominations for Best Director , Best Cinematography, Color and Best Costume Design, Color . The film script had to condense the extensive original. It is primarily focused on Natasha, Pierre, and Andrei, their complex relationship and personal maturation on the backdrop of the historical events of the Napoleonic invasion. In Moscow, most of the scenes take place at the Rostov residence, and episodes at the country estates are curtailed, with some exceptions such as the hunt where Natasha first meets Andrei.
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| Release date: | 1968 |
| Directed by: | King Vidor |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 208 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti |
| Editor: | Leo Cattozzo |
| Music by: | Nino Rota |
| Cinematography: | Jack Cardiff |
| Screenplay by: | Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby, King Vidor, Ennio de Concini, Mario Camerini, Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Mario Soldati, Ivo Perilli |
| Estimated budget: | $6,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | War and Peace |