War and Peace
Production
Director
Scenario
Aleksey Gravitskiy
Producer
Actors
Stanislav Bondarenko
Andrei Bolkonsky
Matvey Lykov
Anatole Kuragin
Aleksandr Metelkin
Nikolai Rostov
Polina Gukhman
Natasha Rostova
Taisya Kalinina
Sonya Rostova
Nikolay Shrayber
Pierre Bezukhov
Liza Moryak
Hélène Kuragina
Liza Klimova
Maria Bolkonskaya
Short description
Against the background of the war of 1812 and the conflicts preceding it, the fate of the Russian aristocracy unfolds.
What's left behind the scenes
- The filming locations include Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and towns in the Moscow region. In the Northern Capital, the creators worked in the historical center—on Millionnaya and Bolshaya Morskaya streets—while one of the key scenes, Natasha Rostova's ball, was filmed at the Catherine Palace. The outskirts of Dmitrov and Mytishchi served as natural sets, with some location shooting taking place in the village of Bornosovo.
- Up to 500 people participated in the battle scenes simultaneously.
- 250 sets of uniforms were sewn for the Russian and French armies—equally for each side.
- Anna Pavlovna Scherer's salon was filmed in the Marble Palace.
- When recreating Raevsky's redoubt, its actual dimensions were intentionally increased to make the set more convenient for filming large-scale scenes.
- One of the scenes with Bolkonsky was filmed near St. Petersburg—in a village of authentic English houses brought to Russia from England back in the early 20th century.
- After theaters refused to allow filming, the theater boxes were built directly on a Mosfilm studio lot.
- For the Moscow fire scene, parts of six actual burned-down houses from the Moscow region were brought to the 'Old Moscow' set at the Moskino cinema park.
- For the scene of the French retreat, a road had to be cleared through a snow-covered field. Modern machinery could not pass through—the filming was saved by an old crawler tractor from the 1970s.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
