The Insane Production Behind War and Peace
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- Sergei Bondarchuks version of War and Peace is a film like no other, made at the height of the Soviet film industry with the full backing of the USSR. This Goliath of a film was made to show the world that the Soviets could make a film on par, if not better than anything the west could hope to produce.
Chapters-
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Stalin and the death of Soviet cinema
2:22 Khrushchev and the revival of Soviet cinema
3:16 1956 War and Peace
4:42 Origins of the production
5:57 How Sergei Bondarchuk came to direct War and Peace
8:06 Writing the script
10:56 Props
13:17 Costumes
15:31 Casting
18:05 Extras
19:00 Makeup
19:31 Locations
23:59 Battle of Borodino and other battle sequences
27:38 Soviet Red Army Extras
30:35 Budget
31:23 Complications when filming
34:28 Conclusion
Footage used from:
War and Peace (1966)
• Joseph Stalin (Documen...
• Stalin in colour, footage
The Fall of Berlin (1950)
• Khrushchev's U.N. Outb...
• Kruschev at the United...
Les Sovietiques (18th November, 1968)
• Khrushchev Does Americ...
• Video
War and Peace (1956)
• Soviet Congress Critic...
Woina I Mir (1966)
Making War and Peace (1969)
Fate of a Man (1959)
• "War and Peace" Wins F...
Additional information used from:
Woina I Mir (1966)
Making War and Peace (1969)
Les Sovietiques (1968)
Interview with Anatoliy Petritsky (2019)
Interview with Fedor Bondarchuk (2019)
Cold War Classic (2019)
Essay on War and Peace by Ella Taylor
Catalogue of when films were released in the USSR (Russian) www.kino-teatr.ru/box/history...
Interview on War and Peace (Russian) www.mk.ru/culture/2011/09/20/...
Music used in order of appearance:
Symphony No.38 in D Major
Soviet March Reprise - Red Alert 3 Soundtrack
Propaganda Tune - Metro 2033 Soundtrack
Russian Dance
1812 Overture
1812 Overture - Short version - Krátké a kreslené filmy
So wild that something so epic and well made is just available for free on CZcams. Mosfilm just keeps posting all their greatest stuff, with english subtitles to boot, it's awesome.
Awesome film, I remember seeing it in 1970, I was ten years old. Many years later I saw it in a one day showing at The Barbican, and later The Royal Festival Hall. It is a mesmerising film, as intimately moving as it is breathtakingly awe inspiring. Bondarchuk is still my favourite Pierre Bezukhov. To think he followed this masterpiece with "Waterloo" my favourite film ever. What a talent, and what an achievement. You have done a great job in both your profiles of his two epics, many thanks.
Excellent. I bloody love "Waterloo", even though it isn't the finest of cinematic works. If only the script was better. If only the camera work was better. If only the Highlanders didn't dominate the Allied numbers. If only The Direction was better. If only... And despite these faults, I count it as one of my all time favourites.
Think of it this way....Audrey Hepburn was seen as Natasha Rostova.
Then the Russians said "Hold my vodka"
It’s on CZcams! The Mosfilm channel ….. Kubrick must have been so jealous
The logistics and labour for this is goddamn insane.
One of the greatest films of all time. A true masterpiece. Was lucky to see all parts of it in theater in 2019 following its restoration and was floored at how it looked and sounded. Just amazing.
Coppola and Ridley Scott notoriously go the extra mile on production design.
Bondarchuk went an extra hundred miles.
"How many items from Soviet museums do you want, Mr Bondarchuk."
"All of them."
It was way better than Ridley Scott's Napoleon...
100%
@@VoidVolken 10,000%
a million per cent!!!
Even King Vidor's stinker War and Peace was better. Herbert Lom as Napoleon was that film's only stroke of genius but at least it had one unlike Scott's. My dad is still gutted.
@@kaykutcher2103 When I watched Ridley Scott's Napoleon I just said that was it? It's disappointing, it lacked grandeur during battles and WTF there are no trenches at Waterloo
The one Soviet director who flourished under Stalin was Sergei Eisenstein who made visually stunning movies.
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov's score is amazing.
He scored some of Tarkovsky's films.
Great composer, rest in peace.
The score is great, Natasha's Waltz being one of my favourite tracks.
This documantary about this movie was well made. Great job and thank you from Holland.
Magnificent video and thank you for pointing me toward the Mosfilm channel on YT.
I shall finally be able to see the entire masterpiece as intended.
Kurosawa's, *_Dersu Uzala_* is also on there, an amazing film set in Russia in the early 1900s:
czcams.com/video/sFaL03SKEzE/video.html
Thank you. Despite being Russian I've never before stumbled upon even a domestic review of War and Peace production story, so it's quite interesting to see it from the external perspective.
I'd say you did very well with the research, collecting and editing all the footage. The only "cringey" moment for me was with those comments about soldiers and air force not being reimbursed for their part in the movie - I found them to be completely out of place and quite pointless in the essence. As you've stressed yourself on multiple occasions, their involvement was facilitated by the government. And it means just that, all the military servicemen involved in WnP production were on duty, and thus all the costs, materiel, logistics (and wages, where applicable) were covered by the Ministry of Defense. And I seriously doubt there were any hard feelings between MoD and Mosfilm about that.
Better imagine how incredible it must have felt for someone to be conscripted to serve those two long boring years in the army, but to find themselves in the middle of a full-scale historical battle reconstruction/reenactment effort. Naturally, that came with certain hardships, but what a unique experience and memories for life to be told to grandchildren!
*Sergei Bondarchuks wasn't only an epic film directorector but a talented actor as well, practically the most international soviet actor ever, he could be considered the soviet Orson Wells and as a matter of fact, they even coincided in the movie Battle of Neretva (1969)🧐*
Finally an essay about this masterpiece
I have a few ideas for a list
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge on the River Kwai
Ghandi
Saving Private Ryan
I plan on doing Lawrence of Arabia as my next 'Insane Production Behind' video
this content is so underrated...
Excellent essay.
Well done.
Thank you.
Excellent video!
An astounding documentary for an astounding film! Kudos!
Thank you chief.
Nothing I love better than seeing a small channel make a shit hot video like channels with millions of subs can’t.. never heard of this beast of a film but I’m definitely gonna watch it after this video 😅 top mate.
Very well put together documentary which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you!
The film was extremely impressive indeed... but so is this video.
have seen it. incredible!
Great film no doubt! Production started during Khrushchev's time and was completed during Brezhnev's time?
Yes
Really great stuff man! Learned and saw a lot of new stuff about Bondarchuk and about the productions! Despite the errors and trails [like the mosin error which made me laugh] they are still masterpieces.
Having watched waterloo multiple times and needing that itch scratched, I'll watch the 4 parts of war and peace after seeing this video.
I hope you enjoy it
It's 7 hours long, but 7 hours well spent
You deserve so many more views than you are getting this is great work.
Thank you!
In terms of epic scale, the new Dune movie pales in comparison to Sergei Bondarchuk's magnum opus.
Awesome work, this is your longest video yet right? It goes to show the staggering amount of work this epic saga required. I also noticed you have quite a few video about 90s scifi anime. I would check those out later when I got the time.
Yes, this is currently the longest video I have ever made. Concerning videos I have done on 90s anime, I recommend checking out my video on Ghost in the Shell as it's similar to these 'Insane production behind' videos.
@@VoidVolken Oh nice to know. Would definitely check that video out later.
I really admire your work and would very much like to see this/these film(s). I'd love to see more of your videos focusing on epics - may I suggest Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1965?) and other such epics of the era. Many thanks. Subscribed.
Thanks, while I enjoy making videos on epics there are other topics I would like to cover as well, so I try to reasonably space them out. Cleopatra is on my list but I still need a couple of things before proceeding with that video. The Fall of the Roman Empire is unlikely as I don't even own a copy of the film and its been out of print for years with little prospects of coming back in print, same goes for El Cid.
The biggest blank Cheque ever given to a director.
Where did you get the footage of Russians queuing at the cinema? Is it available on disc?
I got it from a television program called Les Sovietiques, its available on the Criterion Collection Blu Ray of War and Peace.
And a couple of enourmous series
Young Indiana Jones
Winds of War
War and Redemption
Thank you for this elaborate dive into this film behind the scenes history.
I have two points to make though:
Just because Bondarchyuk was originally from Ukraine, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t already an accomplished and well respected actor/director. After all he was
The battle of Borodino; which part will I find it (there’s 4 “chapters “) That’s all I care about
Part 3
Thank u!
Communism has many problems but it does allow for the resources of an entire nation to be brought to bare for a single project
Didn't even know. BTS videos existed
Hard to understand why millions would tolerate a leader like Stalin, I guess it’s no different now with Putler.
Stalin and Putin are both mass murderers.
Сталин и Путин абсолютно разные, даже противоположные.
here is your cookie now f off