Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Lovely , simply charming and heartwarming:

This movie touched my mind in so many ways. One thing it brought to mind was that the most important things in life are still free. The cast was excellent and the cinematoghraphy was beautiful. I truely enjoyed this movie. An excellent choice for those who love history with a lot of romance.

the Hollywood version:

This film is a bit of a mess, but nevertheless very entertaining, mostly because of Audrey Hepburn...her charisma and enthusiasm make up for a lot of the muddled and mixed performances that surround her in this star-studded production of Tolstoy's masterpiece.

Hepburn's then real life husband, Mel Ferrer, does a pretty good job as Prince Andrei and Henry Fonda is Pierre, who despite sounding like "Young Mr. Lincoln", gives a convincing performance, and has several fine scenes. Nino Rota's score is a... more info

Not a Bad movie- not a v. good one either:

I view this movie with fixed emotions- having read the book i was disappointed that the movie had 6 writers and was more than three hours and yet failed to include so many of the books charming sub-plots about much of the supporting cast ie. Maria Bollonsky, Denisof, Nikolaii Rostof and even then did not fully expand some of the main characters. However the film has it's redeeming moments, Audrey Hepburn was charming and her perfomance is energetic and enthusiastic and Mel Ferrer played a quite difficult... more info