Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace

Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk (IPA: [sʲɪrˈgʲej ˈfʲodʌrəvʲitʂ bəndʌr'tʂuk], Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Бондарчу́к; Ukrainian: Сергі́й Фе́дорович Бондарчу́к September 25, 1920 – October 20, 1994) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 704 × 304 pixelsFull resolution (704 × 304 pixel, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace (1969) This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 704 × 304 pixelsFull resolution (704 × 304 pixel, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace (1969) This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most... Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace Count Pierre Bezukhov (Russian: ) is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoys novel War and Peace. ... Not to be confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Born in Bilozerka, near Kherson city, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeisk and Taganrog, graduated from the Taganrog School Num.4 in 1938. His first performance as an actor was onstage of the Taganrog Theatre in 1937. He continued studies in the Rostov on Don theater school (1938-1942). After his studies, he was conscripted into the Red Army against Nazi Germany, and was discharged in 1946. Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian Херсон) is a city in southern Ukraine, the capital of Kherson Oblast, with 303,900 inhabitants (2004). ... Taganrog (Russian: , IPA: ) is a seaport city located on Taganrog Bay in Rostov Oblast, Russia. ... Taganrog City Theater as appears on a 19-century postcard. ... Central market near Nativity Cathedral. ... Red Army flag The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

At the age of 32, he became the youngest Soviet actor ever to receive the top dignity of the People's Artist of the USSR. In 1955, he starred with future wife Irina Skobtseva in Otello and after four years, they married. He was previously married to Inna Makarova, mother to his elder daughter. Maria Yermolova, first Peoples Artist of the Republic (1920). ... Irina Konstantinova Skobtseva(-Bondarchuk) (Russian: , 22 August 1927- ) is a Russian/Soviet actress, wife of Sergei Bondarchuk, and mother to Yelena and Fyodor Bondarchuk. ... Bondarchuk and Banionis in their Solaris roles Natalya/Natalia Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: ; born 10 May 1950 in Moscow) is a Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris as Hari. She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk. ...

Bondarchuk's western fame lies with his epic production of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which on original release totaled more than ten hours of cinema, took seven years to complete, and won Bondarchuk, who both directed and acted the role of Pierre Bezukhov, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968. The year after his victory, in 1969, he starred as Ivan Martik with Yul Brynner and Orson Welles in the Yugoslav epic The Battle of Neretva. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: , IPA:  ), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. ... War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир; Vojna i mir) is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of the Leo Tolstoys novel War and Peace. ... Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace Count Pierre Bezukhov (Russian: ) is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoys novel War and Peace. ... The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best film in a language other than English, released in the period October - September in the country of origin. ... Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920[1] – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor. ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a film and theatre director, a film producer and a actor in film, theatre and radio. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... Soundtrack cover to the film The Battle of Neretva is a 1969 Yugoslavian war film. ...

His first English language film was 1970's Waterloo, produced by Dino de Laurentiis. This was remarked for the epic battle scenes. However, it failed at the box office. To prevent being chastised by the Soviet establishment, he joined the Communist Party in 1970. A year later, he was appointed President of the Union of Cinematographers, while he continued his directing career, steering toward political films, directing Boris Godunov before being dismissed from the semi-government post in 1986. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Duke inspects his troops before battle. ... Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... The epic film is a film genre typically featuring expensive production values and dramatic themes. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the Russian... Political Cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partisan way in order to inform or to agitate the spectator. ... Tsar Boris I Boris Feodorovich Godunov (Бори́с Фёдорович Годуно́в) (c. ...

Bondarchuk's last feature film, and his second in English was an epic TV version of Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, starring Rupert Everett. It was filmed in 1992-1993 but premiered on Channel One only in November 2006[1], as there were disputes concerning the Italian studio who was co-producing over unfavourable clauses in his contract, which left the tapes locked in a bank vault, even after his death aged 74 of a heart attack. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (ru: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) (May 24, 1905 (Old Style May 11) - February 21, 1984) was a Russian novelist. ... And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) is the first part of the great Don epic (Tikhii Don / Тихий дон) written by Mikhail Sholokhov. ... Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor and a former singer. ... Channel One (Russian: , Pervy Kanal) is one of Russias most poorly rated TV channels with the smallest reception area. ... 67 die and about 300,000 people are affected by floods in Ethiopias Somali Region of Ogaden after the Shabelle River bursts its banks. ... Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...

Sergei Bondarchuk is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. His daughter Natalya Bondarchuk is remembered as a star of Tarkovsky's Solaris, while his son Fyodor Bondarchuk (who starred with him in Boris Godunov) is a popular Russian film actor and director best known for his box-office champion 9th Company (2005). Grave of Anton Chekhov Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the citys third most popular tourist site. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2007)    - Density 10,469,000   9684. ... Bondarchuk and Banionis in their Solaris roles Natalya/Natalia Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: ; born 10 May 1950 in Moscow) is a Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris as Hari. She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk. ... Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский) (April 4, 1932 - December 28, 1986) was a Russian movie director, writer, and actor. ... Solaris (Russian title in Cyrillic lettering: Солярис—English transliteration: Solyaris) is a 1972 Russian film and is also a 2002 US film. ... Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (IPA: , Russian: , b. ... 9th Company (Russian: «9 рота») is a Russian / Finnish film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan released in 2005. ...

External links

• Sergei Bondarchuk at the Internet Movie Database
• War and Peace of Sergei Bondarchuk