Cadoudal (1974)

Actors: Jean-Jacques Moreau (actor), Maurice Bénichou (actor), André Chaumeau (actor), Jacques Dhéry (actor), Sady Rebbot (actor), Claude Brosset (actor), Jean-Paul Tribout (actor), Pierre Lafont (actor), Marcel Lupovici (actor), Jacques Bernard (actor), Eugène Berthier (actor), Robert Benoît (actor), Georges Audoubert (actor), Serge Vincent (actor), Guy Séligmann (director),

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Voyna i mir IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)

Actors: Oleg Tabakov (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (actor), Vladislav Strzhelchik (actor), Georgiy Millyar (actor), Leo Tolstoy (writer), Irina Skobtseva (actress), Sergey Bondarchuk (writer), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (director), Daniil Netrebin (actor), Nikolai Rybnikov (actor), Irina Gubanova (actress), Lev Polyakov (actor), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (actress), Antonina Shuranova (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Voyna i mir (1966)

Actors: Nikolay Trofimov (actor), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (actor), Georgiy Millyar (actor), Aleksei Smirnov (actor), Oleg Tabakov (actor), Nikolay Smorchkov (actor), Nikita Mikhalkov (actor), Stanislav Chekan (actor), Sergey Nikonenko (actor), Nikolay Grinko (actor), Oleg Efremov (actor), Vladislav Strzhelchik (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (writer), Irina Skobtseva (actress),

Plot: Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by 'Leo Tolstoy' (qv). Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.

Keywords: 1810s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, admiration, amputation, aristocracy, ballerina, based-on-novel, battle, betrayal
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, War,

Quotes:

Narrator: On 12th June, 1812, the forces of western Europe crossed the frontiers of Russia and war began. In other words, an event took place that was contrary to all human reason and human nature.

[Prince Andrei is dying]::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: Natasha... I love you too much. More than anything in the world.::Natasha Rostova: And I! But why too much?::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: Why too much? Well, what do you think? What do you feel in your soul, deep in your soul? Shall I live? What do you think?::Natasha Rostova: I'm sure of it.::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: How good that would be.

Narrator: And not for this day and hour alone were the mind and conscience of this man darkened, on whom the burden of events weighed more heavily than on all the others who took part in it. Never, to the end of his life, had he the least comprehension of goodness, of beauty or of truth, or of the significance of his actions, which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human for him ever to understand their meaning. He could not disavow his deeds, lauded as they were by half the world, and so he was obliged to renounce truth and goodness and all humanity.

[the Battle of Borodino drags on]::Narrator: Enough, enough, men. Stop, consider, what are you doing? Into the minds of tired and hungry men on both sides, a flicker of doubt began to creep. Were they to go on slaughtering one another? Kill whom you like, do what you like, but I've had enough. Yet some inexplicable, mysterious power continued to control them, and the terrible business went on, carried out not by the will of individual men.

Narrator: A moral victory which compels the enemy to recognize the moral superiority of his opponent and his own impotence was won by the Russians at Borodino. The direct consequence of the Battle of Borodino was Napoleon's flight from Moscow, the destruction of the invading army of 500,000 men, and the destruction of Napoleonic France, on which was laid for the first time, at Borodino, the hand of an opponent stronger in spirit!

Narrator: I want only to say that it is always the simplest ideas which lead to the greatest consequences. My idea, in its entirety, is that if vile people unite and constitute a force, then decent people are obliged to do likewise; just that.

Narrator: Thoughts that have important consequences are always simple.All my thinking could be summed up with these words: Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force,honest people must do the same.It's as simple as that.

Tushin: Uncertainty, that's what one fears most.

Narrator: According to a popular belief, the fewer people know about the suffering of a woman in labor the less is her suffering.

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: How can you be sure what will do harm to another man?. Personally, I know of only two real evils in life: Remorse and sickness.And happiness is the absence of those two evils.

Madame Sans Gêne (1963)

Actors: Sophie Desmarets (actress), Raymond Pellegrin (actor), Hubert Noël (actor), Janine Darcey (actress), Jean-Jacques Steen (actor), Andrée Champeaux (actress), Gérard Darrieu (actor), Jacques Ciron (actor), Jean Galland (actor), Alain Nobis (actor), William Sabatier (actor), Renaud Mary (actor), Raoul Curet (actor), Véronique Silver (actress), Louison Roblin (actress),

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Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)

Actors: Odette Talazac (actress), Geneviève Morel (actress), Henri Nassiet (actor), André Carnège (actor), Paul Amiot (actor), Joé Davray (actor), Arletty (actress), Paul Barge (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), Robert Vattier (actor), Alain Cuny (actor), Maurice Escande (actor), Pierre Ferval (actor), Jean Aurenche (writer), Roger Richebé (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Madame Sans-Gêne (1924)

Actors: Forrest Halsey (writer), Victorien Sardou (writer), Ernest Maupain (actor), Madeleine Guitty (actress), Warwick Ward (actor), Gloria Swanson (actress), André Marnay (actor), Émile Keppens (actor), Pierre Brasseur (actor), Guy Favières (actor), Georges Tréville (actor), Émile Mylo (actor), Émile Saint-Ober (actor), René Hubert (costume designer), Hugo Riesenfeld (composer),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: FROM LAUNDRESS TO DUCHESS A Romantic Story of Napoleon's Court

Madame Sans-Gêne (1911)

Actors: Victorien Sardou (writer), Henri Desfontaines (director), André Calmettes (director), Jacques Volnys (actor), Edmond Duquesne (actor), Léon Courtois (actor), Georges Dorival (actor), Alexandre Mathillon (actor), Émile Moreau (writer), Aimée Raynal (actress), Pierrette Lugand (actress), Gabrielle Réjane (actress), Léonie Richard (actress), Chauveau (actor), Vaslin (actor),

Genres: Short,