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Title: War and Peace 2007 TV- Series
Review: Clearly this is made for popular viewing by people who have never read the book. It uses some of the basic narrative of events and characters to make a costume soap opera. It has none of the poetry, none of the philosophical musings searching for wisdom, none of the variety of characters or understanding of humanity of Tolstoy's great literary masterpiece. Even Pierre has been turned into a socially easy, seductive image for someone's erotic fantasy, with glasses the only indicator of Tolstoy's intention that he be a socially awkward, rather plump, bumbling intellectual. It has taken his beautiful novel and turned it into trash. The movie made by the Russian Bondarchuk is wonderful but in Russian and my copy is a faded 30 year old tape. I was lured into buying this version by the enthusiastic reviews above and hope this will alert others in my place.
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