The Biggest Movie Ever Made! $700 million in Today's Money, 120,000 soldiers

[onecubed1]

epic. but the last shot is non cgi? i wonder why russia is a not in history at times. :|

[wigster600]

well nothing beats movies with actual people instead of cgi, fuck you health and saftey regulations! btw waterloo was a larger film i think, they booth look equally epic though.

[TheCursedChosen1]

3:54-3:56 The guy just fell down dead, now he gets back up! LMAO

[boston955]

I just got my two soviet ruble conmemoring the 150yrs of the battle of borodino

[MegaDyneSystemsExe]

Damn, I wonder what the "peace" part looked like... it would probably blow me away.

[gaminkalv]

Hell on Earth.... you never know when a musketball or cannonball just rips through your body.

[mrvishal1000]

the biggest movie made by the biggest nation ever!

[Bane529]

This is not even Close to the biggest movie I know a Bigger one , it's cost was far more then 700 000 $ , in the move a Whole Bridge was built and then Blown up it had over 1 Milion people working on the Set and in Action it is Neretva , a Yugoslav movie Yugoslav Movies were all very Expensive cause they were Made by the Country , while all others are made by Private Companies .

[sumadinac92]

@Bane529 The movie you're talking about is called Bitka na Neretvi.it is huge and they did blow up the bridge but I doubt it costed more than this.according to wikipedia it costed some 71 million dollars but I don't know if it's 1968 dollars or in todays value.There's entire movie on youtube in many versions posted by many people.Lower quality than on TV though.Some are good others are not there's even an Italian dubbed version.Lower quality than on TV though.Šta preuveličavaš koj kurac

[mastershakeATHF1]

Wow.

Just wow. Truly deserving of the word "Epic"

[cachorastaman]

Nothing here is computer generated, i highly doubt any modern hollywood director can pull that kind of coordination off. The magnitude of the whole thing is just incredible.

[Soundwave3591]

this is why the Russians make the best classic war movies: there's a ton of soldiers to use as extras.

[signorellil]

The battle of Borodino (1812) re-enacted in 1:1 scale, on the original battlefield and with LIVE explosions - insane

[PrinceofMedieval]

ENGLAND! :D

[waltage]

all sodiers here was REAL!

now, after LotR - in movies uses CGi

Bondarchuk use real soldiers of Soviet army

-because of Party order - THIS cost nothing!

[Sturmmann]

hitler made something this size

had troops taken from the eastern front just to film it

[TheCrimsonsGhosts]

I consider this the biggest, greatest EPIC film of all time!

I sure hope, one day, they release a new 70mm print of it.

[Thevenizer]

Watch the soldier on 3:55 get shot in the back, fall, and then quickly get up.

[maynardgravy]

There is an entire generation of people that believe that before WW1 nations would tickle each other with feathers and then go home. This comes close to showing the epic scale of the Napoleonic wars which killed MILLIONS by virtue of musket, cannon, bayonet, starvation and cold.

[363Magi]

That's a LOT of extras damn. :/

[lunaticwarrior85]

nearly finished the book war and peace...fucking epic, and looked at the video it resembles but in 60s quality.....anyway it's excellent

[bh5496]

what is with the swirling horses at the end and during the cavalry charges how did they make the horses fall without killing them?

[BGPzeus]

@bh5496 ......Well this movie is pre-80s for one. Animal rights groups and such were not as prominent then, at least as far as dictating the film industry conduct with animals/stunts.

Also it was made in Soviet russia. i personally believe they didn't give 2-shits about a handful of dead stunt horses.

So your answer is they probably killed afew sadly....but we did get some awsome shots of a cavalry charge though. Still poor horsies....i like horses.

This video is great. Thankyou

[bh5496]

@BGPzeus what a way to go :'(

[christomacin]

That's $700 million right up there on the screen folks! The audience can't say they got cheated.

[ownage2165]

its lik ge of emprie total war

[bh5496]

@ownage2165 napoleon total war now

[MrSlroyboy]

What is this movie called?

[paulproductions2010]

at 3:54 a soldier gets shot in the back at 3:56 he gets back up then the camera moves on.  FAIL

[DontFlaMe]

lol what a fail.. the guy that gets shot in the back at 3:54 stands up again xD

hahaha

[CharlyContraataca]

incredible!!

[lasseeb]

how much did it make?

[lasseeb]

i thought avatar was most expensive?

[Nomak020186]

In our days its is..but if talk here abot EVER made so war and peace is most expensive..

[fludblud]

yes but only if you dont put inflation into account.

war and peace costed 100 million back then, but put it in todays monetary value and the cost wouldve surpassed 700 million. which isnt surprising considering the movie is 8 hours long, had 120,000 soldiers in just one battle scene and had numerous museums contributing to the creation of costumes and props. and just look at the amount of pyros that were used!

in comparison, avatar only cost 300 million to produce and much of it was for 3d

[ayobios]

now that is REAL war!

[lasseeb]

still not bether then avatar

[indankse]

best war movie of all time!

[ivrhov]

EPIC! This is as far as historical movies ever get.

[ElGuapoJoe]

That's amazing! How did they made the horses flip forward and fall down?

[PhilipineMan]

They hired 700 million dollar horse trainers :-O

[oldtyrone]

wow what movie is this!!

[7652642576265fgdrs4h]

this is Voyna I Mir. in english it means War And Peace.

[chopperpilot5]

This movie tops the hnery Fonda virsion by a long shot. It is better directed, better edited, better acting, everything is more belivable. It brings the book to screen epicley without leaving much out at all. I can watch this epic batle all day and not get tiered. This is by far the best war/love story ever made in the history of cinema.

[DanielSevilla17]

what movie is this?

[Kurozuguchi]

I wrote a detailed video description for a reason. :-)

Anyway, it is War & Peace (Voyna i mir), a Russian film made in the mid-60's by director Sergei Bondarchuk.

[DanielSevilla17]

Ohhh, was it really $700,000,000?

Looks more like $100,000,000

[Kurozuguchi]

Yes, to make the very same film today would cost $700 million. You have to adjust for inflation. The film did cost $100 million to make in the 1960's, but that would actually be over $700 million today.

Some experts even contend that the production was really the equivalent of a ONE BILLION DOLLAR movie, today. Presumably all the soldiers didn't cost the producers much since the government of the entire country put their weight behind the production.

[Kurozuguchi]

This isn't even the fill "Battle of Borodino" scene. I've chopped it up. It's about an hour long. The whole movie is a HUGE epic...

[DanielSevilla17]

Dang.

[MIXEDUPTHROWNTOGETHR]

@Kurozuguchi doesn't the whole scene of this battle take about an hour? the movie is like 5hrs i read

[bananabunny121493]

@Kurozuguchi this was such a great movie

[Gonnakillyou]

@Kurozuguchi The whole movie is four movies, you mean.

[TheFaveteLinguis]

@DanielSevilla17 134,455,576,401, 33

[DanielSevilla17]

@TheFaveteLinguis huhh

[MotoscuterZ]

@DanielSevilla17 you idiot .... it costed 100 million dollars in 1968 when it was filmed.

If you adjust that money for inflation, today it would equal with 700 million dollars.

That makes it the most expensive.

Money worth a lot more in the past than in the present.

[PhilipineMan]

Soviet; not Russian.

[TheDomsta]

sinc up megadeths kill the king to this vid. But ths one must be on silent. Trust be, beautiful.

[aardvaark069]

Magnificent. Bondarchuk has confidence enough in his conception that he does not cut the sequences to shreds in order to suggest breathless action. I believe that these types of battles, though incredibly brutal must have had a breathtaking and remorseless sweep and overwhelming majesty to them. This battle scene captures that perfectly for me.

[Kurozuguchi]

I completely agree. I love the long takes and the exquisite camera work.

If only the original 70mm print of this film wasn't tied up in a legal B.S. "due to a feud over Bondarchuk's legacy between post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine."

If the 70mm print ever sees the light of day again, and gets a nice restoration...this film would get incredible recognition, in my opinion.

Which it deserves.

[Delgarothe]

Impressive scene, but impressive because of the number of men and the size of the reproduced battlefield. For the rest, unfortunatly it is an old movie, and the way the actors are falling when they die or fighting each other is... more funny than anything else^^. Impressive but i prefer from far the Battle of Stirling of Braveheart for example, where there was (far) less actors, but where i got the chills with the sequence of the heavy cavalry charging.

5 stars for this one though^^.

[Kurozuguchi]

First, you can not judge this scene based on this video. Trust me, you can see maybe 30% of the detail, MAX. This must be seen on a big screen, in the same way that you have seen Braveheart, for it to be a fair fight.

Anyway, I have seen both on huge screens, and I much prefer this battle to anything in Braveheart. Much better filmmaking all around, the age of the film has nothing to do with it when this one is so much more dynamic.

Besides, what I consider laughable is the way

[Kurozuguchi]

thousandss of men clash in brutal warfare in Braveheart, leaving corpses everywhere, but the main stars of the film are left standing at the end.

Anyway, see War & Peace on a big screen, then see if you still have the same feeling. As I already wrote in my description here and on my blog, this video is merely an IDEA of this scene. It can not come close to reproducing the full effect, not on this tiny screen where you can't see any real detail.

[Delgarothe]

I won't be able to see this movie on a big screen as you did unfortunatly, so i believe you^^. Thank you for taking the time to answer me.

[kaaskiller666]

what did you expect? an army of brad pitts? of course their actin sucked... they couldnt me all that good

[uberalvin]

these scenes are from which part of the War and Peace? 1? 2? 3? 4?

[Kurozuguchi]

Part 3. The entire film is gigantic, even just "simple" scenes, but there are four MAJOR setpieces. One in each part.

They are:

In Part 1: The Battle of Austerliz

In Part 2: Natasha's first ball

In Part 3: The Battle of Borodino

In Part 4: The Burning of Moscow

[Dvon5000]

I am simply dumbstruck.

[ph33rbenkthankslol]

what movie is this?

[Kurozuguchi]

War & Peace (Voyna i mir). Made in the 1960's in Russia, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. By far the biggest film production of all time.

[shahbaba4all]

these were the great moviz and they are!

[Graphic36]

This would be amazing on blu ray. It could use remastered audio, however.

[Kurozuguchi]

Yeah, a Blu-ray version from the restored 70mm elements is a dream of mine. It would clearly be the most jaw dropping release ever.

[SLIGAMER1]

what movie is this

[PwnzorBob]

... It says what movie it is in the description.

Really.

Read the description.

[zenniz1992]

one freaking rich film maker

[Ajax151]

Epic, I've always wondered what it would be like to travel back in time to see one the great battles of history. this is probably as close as i will get

[AndrewPowergo]

The only russian film, that has fucking oscar.

[RaikohNL]

lol...on 3:54 till 3:58 someone gets shot and dies but stands up just too early for the camera..he cheated death...nice vid btw

[Kurozuguchi]

Yep. I've noticed that too. :-)

Or, maybe he's just super motivated and it was a flesh wound lol. Ummm, yeah... Ha ha.

[Wikeben91]

on 3:54 till 3:58 there are two . The guy how gets shot dies and falls on another that allsow stands up

[Morcridx1]

no it's the same one, he got up to early

3:54 - 3:58

[aMinotaursJourney]

That's absolutely incredible! I'm suprised they would even attempt something like this! Thank you for uploading!

Some of the shots where the horses are tumbling head over heals amazed me. Wouldn't the horses get hurt? Awesome peice of filmmaking, you're right, I don't think anyone will ever spend $700 million on a film again.

[uchihaclan153130]

whats the name of this movie??

[Kurozuguchi]

War & Peace. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk in the 60's. In Russian the title is "Voyna i mir".

[Critica]

I'm am truly impressed i think one of these days with the knowledge we have today should do one movie with everything real now that would set a high bar. but what i wanted to know was was anyone hurt or killed?

[Kurozuguchi]

Yeah with that many people and all that chaos (and this is only 6 minutes of ONE of the three battle scenes in the film), it is likely people got hurt or killed. I mean, a stuntman even died during the making of The Dark Knight so yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

Hey if you are interested, you can check the video info and there is a link to my blog. One of my blog posts is all about this movie, and I explain why I don't think it will ever be equalled for spectacle without computers involved.

[CrossfireX2366]

LOTR is so much bigger :p

[Kurozuguchi]

LOTR is an animated film though, by comparison. For me, the "spectacle" in something like this, or at least what is truly impressive, is that it is all REAL. Real soldiers, real costumes, real horses, real explosions going off and fires breaking out, real dynamic camerawork and choreography... All unaided by computer animation.

LOTR may have more digital cartoon men on the screen in some shots, but War & Peace has more real men. Plus, War & Peace was shot in 70mm. LOTR was 35mm.

[CrossfireX2366]

y-yea? w-well...this...this doesnt has giant elephants...

[Kurozuguchi]

True! :-)