War and Peace

This is an event screening with a total duration of approximately 8 hours 50 mins including breaks.

Specially prepared meals of Russian Salad or Borscht with Dumplings will be available to pre-book ahead of time to ensure that you can relax and enjoy your cinema experience.

Meals must be ordered separately from the film ticket and food booking will open up ahead of the event. Those with film tickets will be notified via email when food bookings are available.

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars.

Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, director Sergei Bondarchuk conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power.

As a statement of Soviet cinema’s might, War and Peace succeeded wildly, garnering the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and setting a new standard for epic moviemaking.

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