Direction: Sergei Bondarchuk

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


War and Peace

1966 · Movie · 401 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Gennadi Ivanov · Anatoli Ktorov

Plot War and Peace (1968) is an eight-hour epic film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of...

7.5

705 votes

7.5

705 votes

Destiny of a Man (Fate of a Man)

1959 · Movie · 103 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Pavel Boriskin · Zinaida Kiriyenko · Pavel Volkov

Plot The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughter were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent...

7.5

217 votes

7.5

217 votes

Waterloo

1970 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Rod Steiger · Christopher Plummer · Orson Welles · Jack Hawkins

Plot The film begins with Napoleon's forced abdication in 1814, after the battle of Leipzig. As the British contribution there was confined to one rocket artillery battery, to say (as the...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

6.4

73 votes

Mexico in Flames

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Franco Nero · Ursula Andress · Jorge Luke · Blanca Guerra

Plot A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.

5.8

32 votes

5.8

32 votes

Boris Godunov

1986 · Movie · 141 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Alyona Bondarchuk · Gennadi Mitrofanov · Valeriy Storozhik

Plot Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for...

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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Lyudmila Savelyeva · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant,...

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Ten Days That Shook the World

1983 · Movie · 139 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Steppe

1978 · Movie · 134 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Oleg Kuznetsov · Nikolay Trofimov · Vladimir Sedov · Sergei Bondarchuk

Plot A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

1966 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Sergei Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot Natasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.

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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

1967 · Movie · 81 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Sergei Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Boris Zakhava

Plot In 1812, Napoleon’s Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch...

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