War and Peace
The classic BBC dramatisation of all Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins directs the cast because Pierre Bezuhov (a job for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA). Morag Hood is your impulsive and amazing Natasha Rostova. Alan Dobie is your dour but Andrei Bolkonsky that is heroic. And David Swift is currently has far reaching consequences for the Bolkonsky and Rostov families and Pierre. The serial has been producer David Conroy's fantasy whose principle aim was to move the characterisation and incident from Tolstoy's greatest book to a tv drama. Scripted by Jack Pulman and led by John Davies,'' Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Greatest Design BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences that were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
Released: 1972-09-29