War and Peace is a movie directed by King Vidor in 1956 and based on the book of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1865. The movie features Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oskar Homolka, and others.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1956
Minutes
208
Movie Rate
6.80
Source: IMDb
Year
1865
Pages
1392
Book Rate
8.24
S: Goodreads
Book
War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Country: Russia
First published in: 1865
Length: 1392 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Sergey Bondarchuk
TV Series by John Davies
TV Mini-Series by Robert Dornhelm, Brendan Donnison
TV Mini-Series by Tom Harper
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“Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.”
VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Wrirter)
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