If you want to see a true epic in the war film genre, you have to watch War and Peace. The film adaptation of Tolstoy’s 1966 novel is a seven-hour chunk that more than 10,000 extras and 23 tons of gunpowder consumed. But the superlatives go even further, because this war and peace adaptation has the most expensive movie battle ever.
Huge war and peace battle has probably cost the equivalent of over 100 million
According to Cinelinx, the 1979 war film went as most expensive film of all time in the Guinness Book of Records a. At that time, the strip was shot for the equivalent of 96 million dollars. Today, such a project would need an estimated budget of $700 million!
As Cinelinx writes, experts now assume that, contrary to the original budget information, alone over $100 million went into the gigantic Battle of Borodino. The sequence lasts one hour in the 7-hour work, making it the most expensive film battle to date.
What is War and Peace about?
The plot of the film adaptation of the novel covers several events between 1805 and 1812. Due to the Threat to Europe by Emperor Napoleon serf peasants unite against the French conquerors. In addition, War and Peace also paints a portrait of aristocratic Russia around the themes of unfulfilled love, ambition and grief.
To date, the effort that went into this 7-hour epic is unparalleled. The film’s action sequences, particularly the central battle for Borodino, continue to be an absolute delight.
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