The 1968 Soviet mini-series in four parts, is the gold standard by which film adaptations of the novel are justly measured.
You have to capture the philosophy of Tolstoy as well as the period mood and the lives of the characters and its not easy to do.
As one of the world's greatest writers, Tolstoy is almost impossible to bring to the screen. It looks like the BBC has done it.
Looking forward to this when it makes its way to American TV.
It's going to be hard to beat the Anthony Hopkins TV serialized version, but Davies hit a home run with the bases loaded with his Jennifer Ehle-Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice.
“You have to capture the philosophy of Tolstoy as well as the period mood and the lives of the characters and its not easy to do.”
Evidently, Tolstoy was a genius at observing and describing people, along with many other talents.
He wrote War and Peace by the light of one candle. His wife would edit his rough copy and had to use a magnifying glass to read his writing. She ended up writing War and Peace five times by hand.
It will be criticized in the USA because Tolstoy was a white European heterosexual male.
Originally known as “War, what is it good for?”