The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
as Natasha Rostova
as Pierre Bezukhov
as Andrei Bolkonsky
as Ilya Andreyevich Rostov
as Countess Rostova
as Nikolai Rostov
as Petya Rostov (uncredited)
as Sonya
as Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
as Princess Mariya
as Lisa Bolkonskaya
as Prince Vasili
as Hélène
as Anatol Kuragin
as Dolokhov
as Count Bezukhov
as Akhrosimova
as Drubetskaya
as Drubetskoy
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
as Katish Mamontova
as Maria Lvovna Karagina
as Field Marshal Kutuzov
as Tushin
as Bagration
as Denisov
as Tsar Alexander I
as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
as Emperor Franz
as General Mack
as Shinshin
as Nesvitsky
as Timokhin
as Staff Officer
as Regimental Commander
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier
as Russian Soldier (uncredited)
as Russian Soldier
as Princess Kuragina
as Vera
as Mademoiselle Bourienne
as Guest
as Abbot
as Viscount
as Guest
as Austrian General
as Lady
as Weyrother
as German Colonel
as Servant in the Rostovs' House
as Ippolit Kuragin
as Officer (uncredited)
as Officer (uncredited)
as Nesvitsky (uncredited)
as Princess Bezukhova (uncredited)