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Sergey Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He was one of the few allowed to collaborate aboard, behind the Iron Curtain. He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.

Quiet Flows The Don ( 2006) | IMDb: 4.8

Drama , Romance , War

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

Starring:

Rupert Everett , Delphine Forest , F. Murray Abraham , Ben Gazzara , Lorenzo Amato , Natalya Andreychenko

Directed by:

Fyodor Bondarchuk , Sergey Bondarchuk

Produced by:

Enzo Rispoli

Waterloo ( 1970) | IMDb: 7.2

Drama , History , War

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Starring:

Rod Steiger , Christopher Plummer , Orson Welles , Jack Hawkins , Virginia McKenna , Dan O'Herlihy

Directed by:

Elvira D'Amico , Vladimir Dostal , Sergey Bondarchuk

Produced by:

Guglielmo Ambrosi , Richard C. Meyer , Piotor M. Sviridov

War and Peace ( 1968) | IMDb: 8.3

Drama , History , War

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. 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.

Starring:

Ludmila Savelyeva , Sergey Bondarchuk , Vyacheslav Tikhonov , Viktor Stanitsyn , Kira Golovko , Oleg Tabakov

Directed by:

Sergey Bondarchuk

Produced by:

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