War and Peace
The BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast because Pierre Bezuhov (a task for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA). Morag Hood is your spontaneous and amazing Natasha Rostova. Alan Dobie is your dour but Andrei Bolkonsky. And David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Bolkonsky and Rostov families. The twenty-part serial was producer David Conroy's fantasy whose principle aim was to move incident and the characterisation from Tolstoy's greatest publication. Scripted by Jack Pulman and led by John Davies, Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Style BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences which were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
Released: 1972-09-29