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War and Peace
Film
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Hepburn apart, a miscast and largely misconceived - but not unenjoyable - epic. The fact that six writers collaborated on the screenplay tells its own story of a lavish, respectful, essentially hollow reduction-by-committee of Tolstoy's novel. The first couple of hours, rambling episodically on, seems less a panoramic view of the social scene than a gaggle of characterisations with nowhere much to go. But after Borodino, Vidor and the film seem to be pulling together for the first time in the flurry of magnificently staged battle scenes (the retreat from Moscow, the crossing of the Beresina). As Vidor has commented, 'My favourite subject is the search for truth. This is also the essential theme of Tolstoy's book. It is Pierre who forces himself to discover what is at the heart of man. All that we see, he sees. I wanted to show his point of view'. Although this point of view is never really anchored in the film, it does lend a belated sense of purpose.
Screenwriter:Bridget Boland, King Vidor, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Ivo Perilli, Robert Westerby
Cast:
Audrey Hepburn
Henry Fonda
Mel Ferrer
Vittorio Gassman
John Mills
Herbert Lom
Anita Ekberg
Barry Jones
Oscar Homolka
Jeremy Brett
Helmut Dantine
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