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{{Infobox television
| name = War and Peace
| image = WarAndPeace dvd.jpg
| alt = ''War and Peace'' DVD cover (Simply Home Entertainment)
| caption = DVD cover
| genre = [[Historical drama]]
| director = [[John Davies (director)|John Davies]]
| writer = [[Jack Pulman]]
| producer = David Conroy
| cinematography =
| camera = [[Multiple-camera setup|Multi-camera]]
| runtime = 44–45 minutes per episode 14 hours 50 minutes total
| based_on = {{based on|''[[War and Peace]]''|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
| theme_music_composer = [[Alexei Lvov]]
| creator = [[David Conroy]]
| starring = [[Anthony Hopkins]] [[Alan Dobie]] [[Morag Hood]] [[Angela Down]]
| country = United Kingdom
| network = [[BBC Two|BBC2]]
| company = [[BBC]] [[Time-Life Television]] Yugoslav Films Belgrade
| first_aired = {{start date|1972|9|30|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1973|2|8|df=y}}
| location = UK:
*[[Kedleston Hall]]
*[[Black Park]]
*[[Luton Hoo]]
*[[Ragley Hall]]
*[[Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire]]
*[[Wrest Park]]
[[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]:
*[[Bela Crkva, Banat|Bela Crkva]]
*[[Novi Sad]]
*[[Zlatibor]]
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| picture_format = [[576i]] ([[4:3]] [[PAL]])
| audio_format = [[Monophonic sound|Mono]]
| num_episodes = 20
| website = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tl07n/episodes/guide
}}
'''''War and Peace''''' is a television dramatisation of the 1869 [[Leo Tolstoy]] novel ''[[War and Peace]]''. This 20 episode series began on 28 September 1972.

The [[BBC]] dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. [[Anthony Hopkins]] heads the cast as Pierre Bezukhov, [[Morag Hood]] is Natasha Rostova, [[Alan Dobie]] is Andrei Bolkonsky and [[David Swift (actor)|David Swift]] is Napoleon, whose decision to [[French invasion of Russia|invade Russia in 1812]] has far-reaching consequences for each of them and their families.

The twenty-part serial was produced by [[David Conroy]] and directed by John Davies. Conroy's aim was to transfer the characters and plot from Tolstoy's novel to television drama to run for a duration of 15 hours. Scripted by [[Jack Pulman]], this version of ''War and Peace'' contained battle sequences, which were filmed in [[SFRY|Yugoslavia]]. The theme tune is the [[God Save the Tsar!|Russian imperial anthem]], played by the band of the [[Welsh Guards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01k1vnv|title=War and Peace 28 September 1972, History of the BBC|website=BBC}}</ref>

The production designer [[Don Homfray]] won a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA]] for his work on the series.<ref>Gill Ducker [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/mar/23/don-homfray-obituary Other Lives: Don Homfray], ''The Guardian'', 23 March 2012</ref>

==Production==

''War and Peace'' followed the success of such literary adaptations as [[The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)|''The Forsyte Saga'']] (BBC2, 1967).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=qmHiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR17&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM_YPazbzXAhUJBMAKHZu1Bv44ChDoAQgtMAE#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&f=false|title=Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey|first1=James|last1=Leggott|first2=Julie|last2=Taddeo|date=11 December 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Charlie Knode designed the costumes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=DX0xBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM_YPazbzXAhUJBMAKHZu1Bv44ChDoAQhZMAk#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&f=false|title=A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot|first=Darl|last=Larsen|date=6 March 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The production took three years (1969–72) and involved location filming in [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|SR Serbia]] and at English stately homes. Soldiers of the Yugoslav [[Territorial Defense (Yugoslavia)|Territorial Defense]] appeared as extras in battle scenes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=WX6GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0x4eRzbzXAhVNGsAKHTLoAF4Q6AEIWTAJ#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&f=false|title=The Classic Serial on Television and Radio|first1=Robert|last1=Giddings|first2=Keith|last2=Selby|date=14 February 2001|publisher=Springer|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Cast==
{{Further|List of War and Peace characters}}
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*[[Anthony Hopkins]] as [[Pierre Bezukhov]]
*[[Alan Dobie]] as [[Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky]]
*[[Morag Hood]] as [[Natasha Rostova]]
*[[Angela Down]] as [[Maria Bolkonskaya]]
*[[Rupert Davies]] as Count Ilya Rostov
*[[Faith Brook]] as Countess Natalie Rostova
*[[David Swift (actor)|David Swift]] as [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]]
*[[Frank Middlemass]] as [[Mikhail Kutuzov]]
*[[Sylvester Morand]] as [[Nikolai Rostov]]
*[[Joanna David]] as [[Sonya (War and Peace)|Sonya]]
*[[Harry Locke]] as Platon Karataev
*[[Donald Douglas (Scottish actor)|Donald Douglas]] as Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia]]
*[[John Cazabon]] as [[Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly|Barclay de Tolly]]
*[[Fiona Gaunt]] as [[Hélène Kuragina]], wife of Pierre Bezukhov
*[[Anthony Jacobs (actor)|Anthony Jacobs]] as Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky, father of Andrei and Marya
*Athene Fielding as Mademoiselle Bourienne, [[Lady's companion|companion]] to Marya
*Barnaby Shaw and Rufus Frampton as [[Petya Rostov]]
*[[Peter Bathurst (actor)|Peter Bathurst]] as [[Karl Ludwig von Phull|Pfuhl]]
*[[Morris Perry]] as [[Joseph Fouché]]
*[[Geoffrey Morris (actor)|Geoffrey Morris]] as Napoleon's secretary
*[[Michael Gover]] as [[Alexander Balashov|General Balashev]]
*Toby Bridge as young Nikolenka Bolkonsky
*[[Neil Stacy]] as Boris Drubetskoy
*Anne Blake as Princess Drubetskoya
*[[Gary Watson]] as Denisov
*[[Donald Burton]] as Dolokhov
*[[Tony Steedman]] as [[Louis-Nicolas Davout|Marshal Davout]]
*[[Joseph Wise (politician)|Joseph Wise]] as Russian officer
*[[Colin Baker]] as [[Anatole Kuragin]]
*[[Basil Henson]] as Prince Vasili Kuragin
*Josie Kidd as Katishe
*[[James Appleby]] as German adjutant
*Gerard Hely as [[Joachim Murat|Prince Murat]]
*[[Michael Billington (actor)|Michael Billington]] as Lt. Berg
*Will Leighton as Tikhon
*[[Patricia Shakesby]] as Vera Rostova, married to Berg
*Alison Frazer as Princess Lisa Bolkonskya
*[[Richard Hurndall]] as [[Fyodor Rostopchin|Count Rostopchin]]
*[[John Breslin (actor)|John Breslin]] as [[Louis-Alexandre Berthier|Marshal Berthier]]
*[[Pat Gorman]] as French Sergeant
*[[Philip Lowrie]] as French Captain
*[[Edmund Bailey]] as Prokofy
*[[Hugh Cross]] as Mitenka
*Richard Poore as French messenger
*[[Barbara Young (actress)|Barbara Young]] as Anna Scherer
*Karin MacCarthy as Julie Karagin
*[[Maurice Quick]] as Pavel
*[[Roy Spencer (actor)|Roy Spencer]] as Timohin
*Hubert Cross as [[Jean Rapp|General Rapp]]
*Geoffrey Denton as Host
*[[Tenniel Evans]] as [[Pyotr Bagration|Prince Bagration]]
*[[Gordon Faith]] as [[List of War and Peace characters#G|Galitsyn]]
*John Lawrence as Anna's guest
*Judith Pollard as Olga
*Edith Sharpe as Madame Scherer
*[[Tony Caunter]] as French Corporal
*[[Erik Chitty]] as Gerasim
{{div col end}}

==Episodes==
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|EpisodeNumber =1
|Title = Name Day
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|9|30|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = 1805. The Rostovs celebrate the [[name day]] of Natasha and Countess Rostova. The family of the dying Count Bezukhov fret over who will inherit.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =2
|Title = Sounds of War
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|10|7|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Pierre Bezukhov comes to terms with his large inheritance and life in high society. Andrei Bolkonsky leaves his pregnant wife and goes away to war
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =3
|Title = Skirmish at Schöngraben
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|10|14|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = [[Napoleon]]'s armies make rapid progress across Europe, winning a victory at [[Battle of Schöngrabern|Schöngrabern]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =4
|Title = A Letter and Two Proposals
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|10|21|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The Rostov family receive news of war from Nikolai. Vasili Kuragin tries to marry his daughter to Pierre and his son to Maria Bolkonskaya.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =5
|Title = Austerlitz
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|10|28|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Preparations are take place for the [[Battle of Austerlitz]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =6
|Title = Reunions
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|11|4|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Nikolai Rostov returns home from war; Pierre struggles in his marriage.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =7
|Title = New Beginnings
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|11|11|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = 1807. Pierre suspects his wife of infidelity. France and Russia [[Treaties of Tilsit|make peace at Tilsit]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =8
|Title = A Beautiful Tale
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|11|18|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Andrei visits the Rostovs. [[Tsar Alexander I]] attends a ball, and romance blossoms between Andrei and Natasha.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =9
|Title = Leave of Absence
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|11|25|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Andrei proposes to Natasha. Nikolai Rostov returns for extended leave.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =10
|Title = Madness
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|12|2|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Natasha Rostova pays a visit to the Bolkonskys.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =11
|Title = Men of Destiny
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|12|9|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = 1812: [[French invasion of Russia|Napoleon invades Russia]]. Pierre cannot decide whether to join the army or not.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =12
|Title = Fortunes of War
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|12|16|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The French advance and the Russians retreat; Nikolai rescues Maria from a peasant uprising.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =13
|Title = Borodino
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|12|23|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The citizens of [[Moscow]] are forced to decide whether to abandon the city or not. At [[Battle of Borodino|Borodino]] both sides take heavy losses.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =14
|Title = Escape
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|12|30|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The aftermath of Borodino. The Rostovs evacuate wounded soldiers from Moscow – Andrei among them.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =15
|Title = Moscow!
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|6|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Napoleon takes Moscow, but the war is not won yet. Pierre imagines that he is destined to kill the Emperor.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =16
|Title = Two Meetings
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|13|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Nikolai must decide between Maria and Sonya. Natasha nurses the dying Andrei.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =17
|Title = Of Life and Death
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|20|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Pierre is arrested; Sonya writes a letter releasing Nikolai.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =18
|Title = The Retreat
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|27|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Napoleon retreats from Moscow. Pierre is caught up in the trek with French soldiers and comes close to death.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =19
|Title = The Road to Life
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|2|1|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Maria tries to rouse Natasha out from her mourning. Pierre returns home.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber =20
|Title = An Epilogue
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|2|8|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = 1820. Pierre and Natasha are married with children, while the Nikolai-Maria-Sonya triangle is resolved.
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==Reception==
According to Dr. Lez Cooke in ''British Television Drama: A History'' (2003), ''War and Peace'' consolidated BBC2 as the channel responsible for 'quality' literary drama.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=OHv-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0x4eRzbzXAhVNGsAKHTLoAF4Q6AEIUzAI#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22&f=false|title=British Television Drama: A History|first=Lez|last=Cooke|date=9 April 2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|via=Google Books}}</ref>

In ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 2016, [[Louis Menand]] wrote ''"It drags in parts today, but in 1972 no one had seen television that grand or ambitious before. The length—almost fifteen hours—meant the series could include scenes, like the [[Wolf hunting|wolf hunt]], or Denisov dancing the [[mazurka]], that are dramatically superfluous but thematically vital. The acting is inspired, in part because the casting was inspired, from [[Anthony Hopkins]], as Pierre, to [[David Swift (actor)|David Swift]], as a pint-sized, swaggering Napoleon. Everyone looks just the way he or she’s supposed to look."''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-do-we-love-about-war-and-peace|title=What Do We Love About "War and Peace"?|first=Louis|last=Menand|date=19 January 2016|publisher=|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref>

[[Clive James]] criticised some performances: ''"I was cruel to [[Morag Hood]] when I said that her performance made me want to throw a [[tarpaulin]]e over her and peg down the corners. I should have blamed the director, who had obviously told her to bounce up and down at all times in order to convey exuberance. ''[...]'' In that same production, [[Alan Dobie]] as [[Andrei Bolkonsky|Andrei]] was grim enough to send you to sleep, but [[Anthony Hopkins]] was a perfect [[Pierre Bezukhov|Pierre]]: a real tribute to his acting, because his default mode is to be in command."''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/13/clive-james-bbc-war-and-peace-measure-up|title=Clive James: how did the BBC’s War And Peace measure up?|first=Clive|last=James|date=13 February 2016|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

Paul Mavis ([[DVD Talk]]) awarded it 4 stars, saying ''"it positively luxuriates in its expansive format, giving the viewer a remarkable chance to fully experience the various nuances of character and the myriad permutations of shifting relationships (as well as Tolstoy's numerous plot coincidences) that mark this mammoth work."'' He praised [[Alan Dobie]] as ''"uniformed in [[Byronic hero|Byronic]] splendor'' [...] ''spot-on as the dour, heroic, closed-off Andrei Bolkonsky."'', also praising [[Angela Down]] (Maria) and [[Sylvester Morand]] (Nikolai). However, he criticised Hood's performance, saying ''"the casting of Morag Hood (which, according to the production history included in this DVD set, was a desperate, last-minute decision) is a distressing misfire.'' [...] ''poor Hood can't begin to approach the character with even a [[wikt:modicum|modicum]] of believability. [[Natasha Rostov|Natasha]] begins the story as a wild, impetuous girl of thirteen - an age and a temperament that Hood evidently felt needed to be delineated by having Natasha laugh insanely at everything while leaping about like a mad thing (Hood is also far too old to be a believable 13-year-old). As for later maturing into this bewitching, erotic little beauty whom all men adore, either an actress has that innate, inexplicable quality or they don't - you can't "act" that powerful allure onto the screen. It has to come from within, and simply put, Hood doesn't have it."''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31385/war-peace-1972/|title=War & Peace (1972)|website=DVD Talk}}</ref>

[[Andrew D. Kaufman]], in his book ''Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times'' said that this version had "much to recommend", although he preferred the [[War and Peace (film series)|1966–67 Soviet film]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=bGt8BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA247&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0x4eRzbzXAhVNGsAKHTLoAF4Q6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&f=false|title=Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times|first=Andrew D.|last=Kaufman|date=10 February 2015|publisher=Simon and Schuster|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[James Monaco]] called it "easily the best adaptation [...] in any medium" in ''How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory'' (1977).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=TSSfJb011QgC&pg=PA504&dq=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM_YPazbzXAhUJBMAKHZu1Bv44ChDoAQhPMAc#v=onepage&q=%22war+and+peace%22+1972+bbc&f=false|title=How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia : Language, History, Theory|first=James|last=Monaco|date=13 November 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==DVD release==

The series was released in a [[DVD region code|Region 2]] 4-DVD boxset by DD Home Entertainment in 2005. The set is accompanied by an illustrated booklet, written by Andy Priestner, which provides a detailed account of how the series was made. In 2009 Simply Home Entertainment released a 5-disc edition with 200 production stills.

==See also==
*[[War and Peace (1956 film)|''War and Peace'' (1956 film)]], version directed by [[King Vidor]]
*[[War and Peace (film series)|''War and Peace'' (1966–67 film)]], Soviet-produced version, directed by [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]
*[[War & Peace (2016 TV series)|''War & Peace'' (2016 TV series)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0069654}}
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tl07n/episodes/guide List of War and Peace episodes at BBC Programmes]

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