Amazing! Colossal! And it’s good, too! ‘Gone With the Wind’ is a tempest in a teacup compared to this jaw-dropping adaptation of the Tolstoy classic: seven hours of artful splendor, passionate characters, map-altering politics and the biggest, most spectacular battle scenes ever filmed. Sergei Bondarchuck has it all in control; the new restoration gives Soviet show color and clarity we’ve never seen before. Two discs, four parts, no waiting. Cover charge may apply.

War and Peace

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 983

1965-67 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 422> min. / available through The Criterion Collection/ Street Date June 25, 2019 / 49.95

Starring: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, N. Tolkachyov.

Cinematography: Anatoli Petritsky, Aleksandr Shelenkov

Film Editor: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov

Original Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Written by Sergei Bondarchuk and Vasili Solovyov

from the novel by Leo Tolstoy

Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk

Thanks to the streaming of miniseries and the...