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“One of the truly unforgettable moviegoing experiences!” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

“As spectacular as a movie can possibly be! You are never, ever going to see anything to equal it!” – Roger Ebert

“5 stars! The extravaganza of extravaganzas! Unarguably breathtaking!” – Time Out New York

Our three screenings of War and Peace sold out in the winter, and since the prints have to go back to Russia soon, we grabbed the opportunity to respond to the many requests we have had for a repeat performance, especially apropos in conjunction with the Canadian Opera Company’s presentation of Prokofiev’s great opera, based on Tolstoy’s epic, presented October 10 - November 1. Talk about a chance to contrast and compare!

A film that beggars any superlative – words like mammoth, gargantuan, or awe-inspiring fail to describe its immensity – Bondarchuk’s War and Peace won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award® despite being released in North America in a cut version dubbed into English. Now, after decades of unavailability, it reappears, ever more awesome, in the original full-length Russian language version (with English subtitles). Numbers: the film runs seven hours, had a budget of seven hundred million dollars in today’s equivalent, making it the most expensive film ever made, and used over one hundred thousand extras loaned by the Soviet army for the battle scenes. (The Battle of Borodino has been called “beyond question the cinema’s best and most elaborate battle sequence” [Chicago Tribune] and “an unprecedented concert of cinematograph, man, beast, and pyrotechnics” [The Village Voice].) A sweeping adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel about five aristocratic Russian families whose domestic lives are shadowed by the war against Napoleon’s invading army, War and Peace manages to be both epic and intimate, sprawling and precise, herculean and delicate. From grand,