1965 USSR - Digital restoration in 2018 by Mosfilm
A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory-
The New York Times- Feb. 15, 2019
The New York Times- Feb. 15, 2019
The leadership of Mosfilms felt that “War and Peace” deserved to be rescued, Youngblood said, while President Vladimir V. Putin wanted, as she put it, “to restore a proper patriotic culture.” Mosfilms received state support for its restoration — a yearslong process conducted scrupulously, frame by frame, by assembling parts of negatives from different archives.
“The film has undergone a real renaissance,” Youngblood said.
Now, she added, it is widely regarded as one of the most important movies of the Soviet era. At the very least, it is an artifact of what happens when the ambition of a director is matched by that of his country.
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1965–67 Soviet war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
The picture was produced by the Mosfilm studios between 1961 and 1967, with considerable support from the Soviet authorities. At a cost of 8.29 million Soviet rubles – equal to US$9.21 million at 1967 rates, or $50–60 million in 2017, accounting for ruble inflation – it was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union. Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in its native country. War and Peace also won the Grand Prix in the Moscow International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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