The 500,000 strong Napoleons army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
1967
HD
97min
Soviet Union
Russian
Sergey Bondarchuk
Ludmila Savelyeva
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Antonina Shuranova
Irina Gubanova
Sergei Yermilov
Kira Golovko
Viktor Stanitsyn
Aleksandr Semin
Boris Smirnov
period drama
19th century
russian literature
