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War and Peace (1956)
★ 6.6 · 273 ratings on TMDB
The greatest novel ever written ... Now magnificently alive on the screen!
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
DirectorKing Vidor
The emergence reading
War and Peace keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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