Screenplay: Leo Tolstoy

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

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

Synopsis 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 young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of...

Direction Tom Harper

Cast Lily James · Paul Dano · James Norton · Aneurin Barnard

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 6 Episodes. A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Fredric March · Basil Rathbone · Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis Anna Karenina (Garbo), a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. Karenin (Basil Rathbone), her husband, refuses to give her a divorce, but,...

Direction John Davies

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Morag Hood · Alan Dobie · Rupert Davies

Direction Aleksandr Zarkhi

Cast Tatyana Samojlova · Nikolai Gritsenko · Vasili Lanovoy · Yuriy Yakovlev

Direction Sergey Bodrov

Cast Oleg Menshikov · Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Jemal Sikharulidze · Susanna Mekhraliyeva

Synopsis In Chechnya, two Russian soldiers, nervous rookie Vania (Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) and hardened veteran Sasha (Oleg Menshikov), are captured by Muslim forces. Abdul-Murat (Dzhemal Sikharulidze), the leader of the village where the soldiers are held, also has a son in...

Direction Aku Louhimies

Cast Mikko Leppilampi · Jasper Pääkkönen · Pamela Tola · Mikko Kouki

Synopsis Tuomas is a young computer hacker who wishes to accomplish something significant and useful to the society. Tuomas's best friend Niko has more of a rock mentality than him, leading a more hedonistic life in the world of drugs and...

Direction Stefan Aust · Axel Engstfeld · Alexander Kluge · Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Hans-Michael Rehberg · Axel-Torg Gros · Jürgen Prochnow · Bruno Ganz

Synopsis At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a film collage about war? "Nothing is more discouraging than not...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Taizô Fukami · Akira Harue · Kiyoshi Katô · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Robert Dornhelm · Brendan Donnison

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Malcolm McDowell · Clémence Poésy · Alexander Beyer

Synopsis Leo Tolstoy's epic historical novel comes to life in this sumptuous remaking of this timeless tale of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, set against the background of Russian social life during the Napoleonic War. Written by Enrico Medioli (Once Upon A Time...

Direction Yakov Protazanov · Alexandre Volkoff

Cast Ivan Mozzhukhin · Olga Kondorova · V. Dzheneyeva · Vladimir Gajdarov

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Anna Sten · Fredric March · Jane Baxter · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her...

Direction Mario Soffici

Cast Pedro López Lagar · Zully Moreno · Juan José Miguez · Ricardo Galache

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Vivien Leigh · Ralph Richardson · Kieron Moore · Hugh Dempster

Synopsis Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Stefania Rocca · Timothy Peach · Marie Bäumer · Cécile Bois

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Giulio Brogi · Renato Scarpa · Daniele Dublino · Renato Cestié

Synopsis Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast John Gilbert · Greta Garbo · George Fawcett · Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become Vronsky's mistress. Tragedy ensues when Vronsky chooses his military career over Anna.

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Aaron Taylor-Johnson · Jude Law · Domhnall Gleeson

Synopsis Late 19th century, Russian high society. At the age of 18, demure and elegant socialite Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) has been promised to marry senior statesman Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin (Jude Law). Her new husband is 20 years Anna's senior...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Julian Sands · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Nastassja Kinski · Massimo Bonetti

Synopsis Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers,...