Rereading War and Peace with Sergei BondarchukPERLOFF, MARJORIERaritan
If one were to judge the history of cinema solely on the basis of scale and ambition, Sergei Bondarchuk’sWar and Peacemight well be considered the greatest film of all time. A seven-hour-plus adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic doorstopper, Bondarchuk’s film was by far the ...