War and Peace

[VisionarysDomain]

Never fails. There always has to be a Nazi prick. One finally showed up !

[MrGodkid]

More feeling! Peace has character@!

[jslasher1]

Arrangement of an original Russian folk song by the film's composer, Vycheslav Ovchinnikov.

[turetskygambit]

The best scene in the history of Russian literature. Ready to cry every time I see it. And I was born in Immigration!

[AstiPasta]

Reading the book I have imagined this scene differently. As well as Natasha. Well, none movie can compete with the book, of course.

[cscentrlTV]

Ludmilla Savelyeva is absolutely brilliant in this scene! ^__^

[FourOutofSeven]

song is called Along the paved road there went a girl (Po ulitse mastavoi shla dyevitsa). These are the lyrics of the original folk version:

Along the paved road

there went a girl to fetch water,

there went a girl to fetch water,

the Don Cossacks Choir of Serge Yaroff accompanied their artistic cossack dance interludes also with this song

to fetch the cold spring-water.

Behind her a young lad

is shouting: "Lass, stand still!"

is shouting: "Lass, stand still!

Let's have a little talk!"

[blini84]

@FourOutofSeven Thank you very much!

[Amfortaz]

I believe the name of this song is "The Young Maiden Comes Walking Down the Road." ... remembering, of course, an old village 'road.'

Bless Tolstoy and all those who have nieces and nephews to protect.

[lavenderblossom]

I just started reading the book, but is this Natasha when she's older? And is that Pierre in the corner?

[blini84]

@lavenderblossom Yes, Natasha is older in this part of the story. The one in the corner is her brother Nikolai.

[lavenderblossom]

@blini84

Alright, thank you lol...I was a bit confused!

I wish someone would upload the entire movie on here. God knows Youtube could use something as great as that to watch instead of the surmounting filth on here...

[lavenderblossom]

@blini84

Natasha is gorgeous! And I love this scene...

I wish someone would upload the whole movie on YouTube. It's way better than 90% of the crap on here anyway.

[Raford146]

everyone should read the book.

[maxfer1210]

you should read the book first.

[tomashize]

This is very very beautiful. I would like to see the whole film. Russian! what a sexy language.

[YUMMYngbird]

Haven't sen the movie yet, but I actually think the movie depicts the dance better. I like how we see Natasha dance before the narrator starts commenting, in the book it seems like he is astonished even before she has started to dance. The descrption of her dancing is nevertheless one of the most beautiful passages I have ever read.. in danish. Tolstoj makes me want to learn russian. I hope one can understand russian culture without being russian.

[vstasov]

One of the greatest moments in cinematic history. A wonderful book called "Natasha's Dance" by Orlando Figes relates Russia's magnificent, sprawling cultural history. So iconic a moment is this dance that Figes named the entire artistic sweep of Russian history after it.

[toddemartin]

Many thanks. I think this is the finest thing I've ever seen in a movie.

[blini84]

you're welcome!

[vonkvetch]

Great video. Thanks for posting! I watched the whole film on youtube before it was deleted and thought it was superb. It really gets the book in a way no other film version I've ever seen has ever done. This is a beautiful song and a wonderful scene.

[ZinkyDoo]

The book was dull, boring, sleep inducing,uninteresting

Synonyms: arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer*, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting,and uninteresting!!!

[Njuta05]

Then why on Earth this 7-lines, 54-words- long comment? At least, it doesn't leave you indifferent. Do you know that the boundary between violent hatred and violent love is actually very thin?

By the way, how come it was "plebeian"???????

[iraidushka]

Sorry to say this, but only an unintelligent human being like you couldn't understand a true meaning, the depth, the beauty and the spirituality of the book. Voistinu! Umom Rossiju ne poniat', orshinom obshin ne izmerit'. U must've be born russian to understand russian soul...alas, it never ment to be. Very sad!

[boubouevi]

You didn't like this masterpiece?Its vast canvas includes 580 characters.Only for this reason you should be gratefull that you had the opportunity just to touch it.

[sdvuhlap]

Does anybody know the name of this beautiful melody and if it is available on DVD? Thank you.

[inferniTys]

the best scene of the movie!!!

[ingareinar007]

Wow, I saw that this is the most expencive film, though it took, was it 7 years to make? 100.000.000$ in the late 60`s.. I must admit I haven`t seen it yet, but is it good? (dumbest question of the day maybe, hehe)

[blini84]

It's as good as it gets. Truly faithful to the book, excellent soundtrack, battles are wonderfully depicted... everything!

Highly recommended!

[ingareinar007]

Thank you, then I must see it! (sounds special, made in the Sovjet :) But they have made different good stuff as well. I allso heard an elder album with "simple" Russian folk-music. It was lovely, and I could in a way, hear what the man and the rest was singing about. I don`t remember any names here. In 1983, I went to Murmansk and Arkangelsk. That was interesting, but sooo "grey". Anyway, thanks again man!

[jerseyflex238]

Murmansk wow ! go in Sochi or Tuapse if u want colors !lol! I'm russian and never ever been in those 2 !

[ingareinar007]

Thank you! Will see ofcourse.. :)

[jkircher314]

So quintessential was this scene in Tolstoy that one of the most important books on Russian cultural history is called "Natasha's Dance" by historian Orlando Figes.

This little actress did a wonderful job here.

[AF2Z]

Thanks for posting this most memorable scene. The scenes that bracket it (wolf hunt and sleigh ride home) are also very good. Well, the entire movie is pretty spectacular!

[blini84]

I quite agree with you. The hunt is amazing! The most spetacular thing in Bondarchuk is that he stuck to the book and didn't try to distort it or pervert it. He showed extreme modesty by not trying to be original. He understood it perfectly and I think he made everything as Tolstoy would like us to perceive his novel. Thank you!

[Load1Bongs1Not1Guns]

Ah, how lovely our uncle is!

[valuchka]

Don't you think that Ludmila Savelyeva looks a bit like Audrey Hepburn?

[hobbitofny]

Yes. The earlier American film had Audrey Hepburn. Since people thought of her in the part, someone who looked similar was cast.

[sofialera]

No! That is NOT the reason. In fact, people in russia didn't like audrey in the part, because she had bangs, and russian aristocrats during that time DID NOT have bangs. The actress in this film was cast because she actually looks like the Natasha that Tolstoy described.

[Lizdevlin9]

One of my favourite scenes of one of my favourite movies !

Thank you

[hobbitofny]

In Tolstoy's age, this is scene was his answer to what is the soul of Russia. He present it in this dance of Natasha Rostov.

In this present age I do not know how the Russian people would answer.

I can say that the soul presented in this

scene is there in the people of the small towns of Russia. I can not say if they now claim it as Tolstoy did. I see it in my Russian wife, but she has never danced like this for me.

It is a wonderful scene. A deep soul to soul people.

[gigiloboy]

how adding the dance DANIEL COOPER? Thanks

[toosinbeymen]

This scene is at the heart of War and Peace. What's so amazing is that Natasha Rostova is an aristocrat and has grown up in the arms of privilege. So how does she know this traditional Russian dance? She doesn't have to learn it. It's in her blood, part of her DNA.

[blini84]

Soon I'll be posting part of Anna Karenina that has some of this Russian essence (I suppose, beacause I'm not Russian...). It's the part where Levin goes out to work with his own peasants. It has a very beautiful music too in the end.

[Vlahia2008]

I honestly believe that NOBODY can make a Tolstoy-based movie other than Russians.

The same is true about any other novel in Russian literature (Dostoyevsky, for ex.)

Hat down to the huge Russian culture.

[Etovsye]

i agree with you. i own a copy of bbc's war and peace, with anthony hopkins. there is just a huge different atmosphere compared to this version

[Vlahia2008]

A big thank you for posting this fragment from what I thought was a long-lost gem of a movie, to me. I had been longing to see it again for many years.

[soothuglifesmile]

LOVE this scene

[javanfly]

Thank you:)

[naseinso]

whats the name of the book?

[blini84]

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

[naseinso]

thank you.

[pavelkostov]

such an incredible movie! It captures the book so well!

[T1000579]

such a nice dance

[pankybarbera91]

I absolutely loved this part of the book! I wish I could have this movie, it looks so good... I've heard it's really faithful to the book. Thanks for uploading this! :D

[runingwithhamer]

Yes,it is relly faithfull to the book.You can buy DVD ona AMAZON. I red th book several times--- after 20 years it is still my favourite ... and the fim too .

[nashamarka]

thank you!!

[monstrzlodei]

THANKS A LOT!!! SHE IS DIVINE)

[Marjushka]

is it vdol' po piterskoj po tverskoj jamskoj?

that must be my favorite bit. Thanks!

[MariLynWells]

Your task was very interesting for me, thanks for the letter)) Yes I'm sure that it's a good old Russian traditional romanse, I don't actually know the name of it(