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Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, USSR 1967, 6hr 40mins |
We pay tribute to the great work of Leo Tolstoy, in the centenary of his death, with a rare public screening of perhaps the most spectacular and expensive movie of all times: five years in the making at a cost of $100,000,000, a cast of 120,000, and the Red Army mobilised to recreate Napoleon’s battles exactly as they happened. Perhaps what is extraordinary about War and Peace is that Bondarchuk was able to take Tolstoy’s novel and somehow transform it into this great work of film, balancing the spectacular, the human and the intellectual.
We expect the film to be scheduled as follows (please check this page or Arnolfini’s website for updates):
14.30 Part one (2hrs 26mins)
17.00 Interval – 15mins
17.15 Part two (1hr 39mins)
18.55 Interval – 45mins* Pre order your dinner and drinks from the cafe bar staff to be ready for the interval at 18.55. Special offer for ticket holders: ‘Pizetta’ (mini pizza) and ‘Pinetta’ (half pint) for £5.00.
19.40 Part three (1hr 24mins)
21.05 Interval – 15mins
21.20 Part four (1hr 40mins)
23.00 Finish (approx.)
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April 29th, 2011 at 9:05 am
The 120,000 soldiers of the soviet army used in the battle of Borodino scene in Bondachuck’s War and Peace is a myth.
Bondachuck himself never mentioned the exact numbers of troops used, however he did state (while filming Waterloo) that too many extras are subject to the law of diminishing returns. A battalion of 500 men filmed at a didtance of almost a mile from the camara could just as well be 300. Newspaper coverage of making the film in the 1960′s stated 20,000 extras. This would seem to be about right, it was also the amount used when filming Waterloo.