This is the classic based on Leo Tolstoy novel and featuring Audrey
Hepburn and Henry Fonda. It is an essay of Russian Society during
Napoleon's invasion of Moscow. It makes a statement about the horrors
of war. It is also a love story, which is finally put right in the
end. Any movie with Audrey Hepburn is great. This movie adds Henry
Fonda, and the historical character, Napoleon. Napoleon's attitude
about war is classic, but in the end he loses to the Russians not
fighting him, and just sitting him out, until he decides to return to
France with his men. Then the Russians send him off with an action
against his rearguard as they retreat.
Henry Fonda portrays Pierre, who at the beginning is a bitter young man,
illegitimate son of a wealthy Muscovite. His father finally
acknowledges him just before he dies, and Pierre inherits his estate.
He is friends of the family of Audrey Hepburn, whose younger brother
joins the war in the end, and is killed. Another friend of Pierre, who
is also in the military, falls in love with the character of Audrey
Hepburn, but break of the engagement due to social standing issues. He
is wounded in action, and near death. Nursing him back to health, he
and Audrey Hepburn over come the issues that kept them apart before.
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