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* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Helene dies offscreen in St. Petersburg.
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The film, like the book, focuses on several interconnected nobles in 1800s Russia. Pierre Bezukhov, the bastard son of Russia's richest man, inherits his father's fortune and enters an ill-fated marriage with Hélène Kuragina (Creator/AnitaEkburg). Andrei Bolkonsky goes off to war to seek his purpose. Nicholas Rostov (Creator/JeremyBrett) goes to war for glory, while his sister Natasha Rostova grows up and falls in love with Andrei, only to be corrupted by Hélène's rakish brother Anatole (Creator/VittorioGassman). All the while, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte (Creator/HerbertLom) proceeds with his invasion of Russia, threatening the relative stability of the upper class and forcing the characters to grow and mature.
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The film, like the book, focuses on several interconnected nobles in 1800s Russia. Pierre Bezukhov, the bastard son of Russia's richest man, inherits his father's fortune and enters an ill-fated marriage with Hélène Kuragina (Creator/AnitaEkburg).(Creator/AnitaEkberg). Andrei Bolkonsky goes off to war to seek his purpose. Nicholas Rostov (Creator/JeremyBrett) goes to war for glory, while his sister Natasha Rostova grows up and falls in love with Andrei, only to be corrupted by Hélène's rakish brother Anatole (Creator/VittorioGassman). All the while, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte (Creator/HerbertLom) proceeds with his invasion of Russia, threatening the relative stability of the upper class and forcing the characters to grow and mature.
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->''" I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray. I want to discover what men and women feel when they say they love."''
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''War and Peace'' is an American 1956 HistoricalFiction drama film based on the [[Literature/WarAndPeace novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Creator/KingVidor (who also co-wrote) and starred Creator/AudreyHepburn as Natasha Rostova, Creator/HenryFonda as Pierre Bezukhov, and Creator/MelFerrer as Andrei Bolkonsky.
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''War and Peace'' is an American 1956 HistoricalFiction drama film based on the [[Literature/WarAndPeace novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Creator/KingVidor (who also co-wrote) and scored by Music/NinoRota. It starred Creator/AudreyHepburn as Natasha Rostova, Creator/HenryFonda as Pierre Bezukhov, and Creator/MelFerrer as Andrei Bolkonsky.
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Other actors with roles in the film are Creator/HelmutDantine as Fedor Dolokhov, Creator/AnnaMariaFerrero as Marya Bolkonskaya, Creator/OskarHomolka as Mikhail Kutuzov, and Creator/JohnMills as Platon Karataev. Despite the total runtime of 208 minutes, the film is still a heavily condensed version of its source material.
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* YouKnowWhatToDo: Dolokhov says this word for word to his men as they are leading some bedraggled French prisoners away. Shots ring out offscreen as the Russians execute the prisoners.
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* YouKnowWhatToDo: Dolokhov says this word for word to tells his men that they know what to do as they are leading some bedraggled French prisoners away. Shots ring out offscreen as the Russians execute the prisoners.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/WarAndPeace''.
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->''" I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray. I want to discover what men and women feel when they say they love."''
-->-- '''Pierre Bezukhov'''
''War and Peace'' is an American 1956 HistoricalFiction drama film based on the [[Literature/WarAndPeace novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Creator/KingVidor (who also co-wrote) and starred Creator/AudreyHepburn as Natasha Rostova, Creator/HenryFonda as Pierre Bezukhov, and Creator/MelFerrer as Andrei Bolkonsky.
The film, like the book, focuses on several interconnected nobles in 1800s Russia. Pierre Bezukhov, the bastard son of Russia's richest man, inherits his father's fortune and enters an ill-fated marriage with Hélène Kuragina (Creator/AnitaEkburg). Andrei Bolkonsky goes off to war to seek his purpose. Nicholas Rostov (Creator/JeremyBrett) goes to war for glory, while his sister Natasha Rostova grows up and falls in love with Andrei, only to be corrupted by Hélène's rakish brother Anatole (Creator/VittorioGassman). All the while, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte (Creator/HerbertLom) proceeds with his invasion of Russia, threatening the relative stability of the upper class and forcing the characters to grow and mature.
Despite the total runtime of 208 minutes, the film is still a heavily condensed version of its source material.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationDistillation: The film cuts out a lot of its {{Doorstopper}} source material in favor of focusing more on Natasha, Pierre, and Andrei. Elements toned down or cut entirely include the Sonya/Nikolai/Marya triangle, many of the war details, and the epilogue.
* CompositeCharacter: Since Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova is cut from the story, Sonya takes the initiative in preventing [[spoiler:Natasha's eloping with Anatole; she locks her in her room and sends for Pierre so he can drive Anatole away at the gate.]]
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Pierre and Natasha walking away arm in arm through the grounds of the Rostov estate in Moscow, having found each other again.
* OrangeBlueContrast: In [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_mv5bnmjjothlytytyzflzc00nji1lwfhnzitymiznzk5ndzkzmrml2ltywdll2ltywdlxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvynjc1ntyymjg_v1.png this poster]] the "peace" of the characters have a blue background, while the "war" has an orange background.
* RuleOfThree: A fancy Russian lady in a fancy carriage is seen three times. As the French are pulling out of Moscow, she's riding away; Pierre contemptuously compares such army groupies to the lice that have to stick around a dog. A later scene shows soldiers struggling to get the fancy Russian lady's fancy carriage through a field of thick soupy mud. Still later, after the snows have come, we see the fancy carriage stuck in a drift. A soldier opens the door to the carriage and the frozen corpse of the Russian lady tumbles out.
* SnowMeansDeath: It certainly does for the straggling remnant of the French army retreating from Moscow. The retreat, which had already become difficult, becomes harrowing as the cold of winter arrives, and corpses start getting left behind in the snow.
* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic: The very first shot is a graphic showing Napoleon's France taking over Western Europe.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Apparently upper-class Russians do the squat dance too, as seen at a drunken party attended by Pierre early in the film.
* YouKnowWhatToDo: Dolokhov says this word for word to his men as they are leading some bedraggled French prisoners away. Shots ring out offscreen as the Russians execute the prisoners.
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->''" I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray. I want to discover what men and women feel when they say they love."''
-->-- '''Pierre Bezukhov'''
''War and Peace'' is an American 1956 HistoricalFiction drama film based on the [[Literature/WarAndPeace novel of the same name]]. It was directed by Creator/KingVidor (who also co-wrote) and starred Creator/AudreyHepburn as Natasha Rostova, Creator/HenryFonda as Pierre Bezukhov, and Creator/MelFerrer as Andrei Bolkonsky.
The film, like the book, focuses on several interconnected nobles in 1800s Russia. Pierre Bezukhov, the bastard son of Russia's richest man, inherits his father's fortune and enters an ill-fated marriage with Hélène Kuragina (Creator/AnitaEkburg). Andrei Bolkonsky goes off to war to seek his purpose. Nicholas Rostov (Creator/JeremyBrett) goes to war for glory, while his sister Natasha Rostova grows up and falls in love with Andrei, only to be corrupted by Hélène's rakish brother Anatole (Creator/VittorioGassman). All the while, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte (Creator/HerbertLom) proceeds with his invasion of Russia, threatening the relative stability of the upper class and forcing the characters to grow and mature.
Despite the total runtime of 208 minutes, the film is still a heavily condensed version of its source material.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationDistillation: The film cuts out a lot of its {{Doorstopper}} source material in favor of focusing more on Natasha, Pierre, and Andrei. Elements toned down or cut entirely include the Sonya/Nikolai/Marya triangle, many of the war details, and the epilogue.
* CompositeCharacter: Since Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova is cut from the story, Sonya takes the initiative in preventing [[spoiler:Natasha's eloping with Anatole; she locks her in her room and sends for Pierre so he can drive Anatole away at the gate.]]
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Pierre and Natasha walking away arm in arm through the grounds of the Rostov estate in Moscow, having found each other again.
* OrangeBlueContrast: In [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_mv5bnmjjothlytytyzflzc00nji1lwfhnzitymiznzk5ndzkzmrml2ltywdll2ltywdlxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvynjc1ntyymjg_v1.png this poster]] the "peace" of the characters have a blue background, while the "war" has an orange background.
* RuleOfThree: A fancy Russian lady in a fancy carriage is seen three times. As the French are pulling out of Moscow, she's riding away; Pierre contemptuously compares such army groupies to the lice that have to stick around a dog. A later scene shows soldiers struggling to get the fancy Russian lady's fancy carriage through a field of thick soupy mud. Still later, after the snows have come, we see the fancy carriage stuck in a drift. A soldier opens the door to the carriage and the frozen corpse of the Russian lady tumbles out.
* SnowMeansDeath: It certainly does for the straggling remnant of the French army retreating from Moscow. The retreat, which had already become difficult, becomes harrowing as the cold of winter arrives, and corpses start getting left behind in the snow.
* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic: The very first shot is a graphic showing Napoleon's France taking over Western Europe.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Apparently upper-class Russians do the squat dance too, as seen at a drunken party attended by Pierre early in the film.
* YouKnowWhatToDo: Dolokhov says this word for word to his men as they are leading some bedraggled French prisoners away. Shots ring out offscreen as the Russians execute the prisoners.
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