The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.

• Mosfilm
• Ludmila Savelyeva
• Sergey Bondarchuk
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov
• Viktor Stanitsyn
• Kira Golovko
• Oleg Tabakov
• Sergei Yermilov
• Irina Gubanova