Fate of a Man 1959  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Destiny of a Man
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Sergei Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Pavel Volkov, Yuri Averin, Kirill Alekseyev, Pavel Vinnikov, Yevgeni Teterin, Anatoli Chemodurov, Lev Borisov
Sokolov (Sergei Bondarchuk) leaves his family behind and heads to World War II. He is captured by the Germans during which time he observes atrocities on his fellow soldiers. But he gains strength from the fact that he will be reunited with his family. He escapes, is recaptured, and dodges a firing squad during the war, after which he returns home to find that his entire family had been killed during the war. Now he must establish a reason to live.
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 War and Peace 1967  N/R, 375 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Kira Golovko, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, V. Badayev, Jean-Claude Ballard, Aleksandr Borisov, Giuli Chokhonelidze, Nikolai Bubnov, D. Edzhubov
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this rendition of Leo Tolstoy's novel is artfully produced and well-worth viewing. The story involves Russia's war in 1812 against Napoleon's invading troops and how Russia was left with a changed society. Meanwhile, Countess Natasha (Lyudmila Savelyeva) and Count Pierre Bezukhov (the film's director Sergei Bondarchuk) fall in and out of love as events in their lives are changed during the war. But by story's end, they are reunited.
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Waterloo 1970  G, 123 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Wilding, Donal Donnelly, Terence Alexander, Rupert Davies
Originally a four-hour film, this movie was cut way back for U.S. consumption. It is the story of Napoleon's take-over of Europe and his final downfall at Waterloo.
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| 1. The Battle of Neretva (1969)
2. Fate of a Man (1959)
aka: Destiny of a Man
3. War and Peace (1967)
4. Waterloo (1970)
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