War and Peace
The BBC dramatisation of all Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast because Pierre Bezuhov (a task which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA). Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova. Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky. And David Swift is has impacts for the Bolkonsky and Rostov families and Pierre. The serial has been the vision of producer David Conroy whose principle aim was to transfer the rich characterisation and episode from Tolstoy's greatest book to a tv play. Scripted from Jack Pulman and directed by John Davies,'' Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award winning design (1972 Greatest Layout BAFTA) and stunning battle sequences that were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
Released: 1972-09-29