War and Peace (1968)
AVI | 432x240 | XviD, 417 kbit / sec | MPEG-1 Audio layer 3, 128 kbit/sec | 6:43:00 | 4x800 MB
Audio: English,Russian, French
Subtitles: Russian, English, Hebrew, French, Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Dutch, Portugues, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Greek
Some of you might have already met this movie as DVD but for the first time in the web it is uploaded as DVDRip so that its total size is just 3.4 GB. War and Peace (1968) is an eight-hour epic film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined.
One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed. The film took 7 years to produce and cost over $100 million. If inflation is taken into account, a film of this magnitude would cost over $700 million today, making War and Peace the most expensive film ever made.
