
July 2019
Sergei Bondarchuk’s Restored Masterpiece Dazzles in a New BD from Criterion
The Criterion Collection 983
Format: Blu-ray
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Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace is in the DNA of all Russians. I don’t know if it’s true any longer, but in the 1960s, when this film version was released, every Russian teenage girl wanted to be Natasha Rostova, here radiantly portrayed by Lyudmila Saveleva -- at least, that’s a view supported by one of the excellent extras Criterion includes in this Blu-ray Disc edition.