Tolstoy's War and Peace on Screen

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Description

A discussion of the US/Italian and Soviet films based on Leo Tostoy's novel "War and Peace". The presentation highlights the differences of the films and traces them back to the forces governing film production in the 1950s in the USA and in the Soviet Union of the 1960s.
Period28 Feb 2019
Degree of RecognitionLocal

Keywords

  • Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace
  • Hollywood
  • Soviet film
  • Soviet realism
  • Russian empire
  • Napoleonic wars

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