War and Peace [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs] SS_Gift_Guide National Book Award- and Pulitzer

National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed (The Hemingses of Monticello

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War and Peace [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs] SS_Gift_Guide National Book Award- and Pulitzer"Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk's epic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Voyna i Mir) was the most expensive European film ever made for many years. It certainly had one of the longest gestation periods, with Bondarchuk spending seven years filming the project (the actors noticeably age from scene to scene). In relating Tolstoy's complex tale of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Bondarchuk helmed some of the most graphic battle scenes ever