Editing War and Peace (section)

==Adaptations==

===Film===

* The [[War and Peace (1915 film)|first Russian adaptation]] was {{lang|ru|Война и мир}} ({{lang|ru-Latn|Voyna i mir}}) in 1915, which was directed by [[Vladimir Gardin]] and starred Gardin and the Russian ballerina [[Vera Karalli]]. 
* [[Fumio Kamei]] produced a version in Japan: War and Peace (戦争と平和 Sensō to heiwa) (1947)
* The [[War and Peace (1956 film)|208-minute-long American 1956 version]] was directed by [[King Vidor]] and starred [[Audrey Hepburn]] (Natasha), [[Henry Fonda]] (Pierre) and [[Mel Ferrer]] (Andrei). Audrey Hepburn was nominated for a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Award for best British actress and for a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] for best actress in a drama production.
* The critically acclaimed, four-part and 431-minutes long Soviet ''[[War and Peace (film series)|War and Peace]]'', by director [[Sergei Bondarchuk]], was released in 1966 and 1967. It starred [[Ludmila Savelyeva]] (as Natasha Rostova) and [[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]] (as Andrei Bolkonsky). It won an [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film]] for its authenticity and massive scale.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} It attracted some controversy due to the number of horses killed during the making of the battle sequences and screenings were actively boycotted in several US cities by the ASPCA.<ref>{{cite news |last=Curtis |first=Charlotte |author-link=Charlotte Curtis |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/53286/War-and-Peace/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013183136/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/53286/War-and-Peace/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-13 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2007 |title=War-and-Peace |access-date=2014-04-20}}</ref>

===Television===
* ''[[War and Peace (1972 TV series)|War and Peace]]'' (1972): The [[BBC]] (British Broadcasting Corporation) made a television serial based on the novel, broadcast in 1972–73. [[Anthony Hopkins]] played the lead role of Pierre. Other lead characters were played by [[Rupert Davies]], [[Faith Brook]], [[Morag Hood]], [[Alan Dobie]], [[Angela Down]] and [[Sylvester Morand]]. This version faithfully included many of Tolstoy's minor characters, including Platon Karataev ([[Harry Locke]]).<ref>[http://www.tv.com/war-and-peace/show/16837/summary.html War and Peace. BBC Two (ended 1973)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813004017/http://www.tv.com/war-and-peace/show/16837/summary.html |date=2009-08-13 }}. TV.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069654/ |title=War & Peace (TV mini-series 1972–74) |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* {{lang|fr|La guerre et la paix}} (2000): French TV production of [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev's]] opera ''[[War and Peace (opera)|War and Peace]]'', directed by François Roussillon. [[Robert Brubaker (tenor)|Robert Brubaker]] played the lead role of Pierre.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385735/ |title=La guerre et la paix (TV 2000) |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* ''[[War and Peace (2007 TV miniseries)|War and Peace]]'' (2007): produced by the Italian [[Lux Vide]], a TV mini-series in Russian & English co-produced in Russia, France, Germany, Poland and Italy. Directed by [[Robert Dornhelm]], with screenplay written by Lorenzo Favella, Enrico Medioli and [[Gavin Scott (screenwriter)|Gavin Scott]]. It features an international cast with [[Alexander Beyer]] playing the lead role of Pierre supported by [[Malcolm McDowell]], [[Clémence Poésy]] as Natasha Rostova, [[Alessio Boni]], Pilar Abella, [[Valentina Cervi]], J. Kimo Arbas, [[Ken Duken]], Juozapas Bagdonas and [[Toni Bertorelli]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495055/ |title=War and Peace (TV mini-series 2007) |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* On 8 December 2015, Russian state television channel [[Russia-K]] began a four-day broadcast of a reading of the novel, one volume per day, involving 1,300 readers in over 30 cities.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Four-day marathon public reading of ''War and Peace'' begins in Russia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/08/four-day-marathon-public-reading-of-war-and-peace-begins-in-russia |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=8 December 2015 }}</ref>
* ''[[War & Peace (2016 TV series)|War & Peace]]'' (2016): The BBC aired a six-part adaptation of the novel scripted by [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]] on [[BBC One]] in 2016, with [[Paul Dano]] playing the lead role of Pierre.<ref>{{cite web |author=Danny Cohen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/war-and-peace.html |title=BBC One announces adaptation of ''War and Peace'' by Andrew Davies |publisher=BBC |date=2013-02-18 |access-date=2014-04-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/lithuania-news/item/110218-war-and-peace-filming-in-lithuania |title=War and Peace Filming in Lithuania }}</ref>

===Music===
* English [[progressive rock]] band [[Yes (band)|Yes]]'s song "[[The Gates of Delirium]]" from their 1974 album ''[[Relayer]]'' was inspired by ''War and Peace''.

===Opera===
* Initiated by a proposal of the German director [[Erwin Piscator]] in 1938, the Russian composer [[Sergei Prokofiev]] composed his opera ''[[War and Peace (Prokofiev)|War and Peace]]'' (Op. 91, libretto by Mira Mendelson) based on this epic novel during the 1940s. The complete musical work premièred in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] in 1955. It was the first opera to be given a public performance at the [[Sydney Opera House]] (1973).<ref>[http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about/house_history/1973_1981.aspx History – highlights]. Sydney Opera House. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.</ref>

===Theatre===
* The first successful stage adaptations of ''War and Peace'' were produced by [[Alfred Neumann (writer)|Alfred Neumann]] and [[Erwin Piscator]] (1942, revised 1955, published by Macgibbon & Kee in London 1963, and staged in 16 countries since) and R. Lucas (1943).
* A stage adaptation by [[Helen Edmundson]], first produced in 1996 at the [[Royal National Theatre]] with [[Richard Hope (actor)|Richard Hope]] as Pierre and [[Anne-Marie Duff]] as Natasha, was published that year by Nick Hern Books, London. Edmundson added to and amended the play<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/11/btroad111.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212232622/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/11/btroad111.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2008 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=War and Peace: A triumphant Tolstoy |first=Dominic |last=Cavendish |date=February 11, 2008 }}</ref> for a 2008 production as two 3-hour parts by [[Shared Experience]], again directed by [[Nancy Meckler]] and [[Polly Teale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sharedexperience.org.uk/whatson3.asp?levone=1&levtwo=68&levthree=87&allowRev=0 |title=War and Peace |access-date=2008-12-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220045244/http://www.sharedexperience.org.uk/whatson3.asp?levone=1&levtwo=68&levthree=87&allowRev=0 |archive-date=2008-12-20 }}. Sharedexperience.org.uk</ref> This was first put on at the [[Nottingham Playhouse]], then toured in the UK to Liverpool, Darlington, Bath, Warwick, Oxford, Truro, London (the [[Hampstead Theatre]]) and Cheltenham.
* A musical adaptation by [[Drama Desk Award|Drama Desk]] and [[Theatre World Award]] winner [[Dave Malloy]], called ''[[Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812]]'' premiered at the [[Ars Nova (theater)|Ars Nova]] theater in Manhattan on October 1, 2012, with Malloy starring as Pierre opposite [[Phillipa Soo]] as Natasha and [[Lucas Steele]] as Anatole. The show is described as an electropop opera, and is based on Book 8 of ''War and Peace,'' focusing on Natasha's affair with Anatole.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/over_the_moon_for_comet_ElRNZxos07lW1fay2rkCuI |location=New York |work=The NY Post |title=Over the Moon for Comet |first=Elisabeth |last=Vincentelli |date=October 17, 2012 }}</ref> The show opened on Broadway in the fall of 2016, starring [[Josh Groban]] as Pierre, [[Denée Benton]] as Natasha and Steele as Anatole. It received [[71st Tony Awards|twelve Tony Award]] nominations including [[Tony Award for Best Musical|Best Musical]], [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical|Best Actor]], [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical|Best Actress]], [[Tony Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]], and [[Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical|Best Book of a Musical]].
* A stage adaptation by [[Carlos Be]] in Spanish, first produced by LaJoven and directed by José Luis Arellano. Its premiere is scheduled for January 2023 at the [[Círculo de Bellas Artes]] of [[Madrid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.circulobellasartes.com/espectaculos/lajoven-war-and-love/ |title=La Joven. War & Love|date=21 September 2022 }}</ref>

===Radio===
* The [[BBC Home Service]] broadcast an eight-part adaptation by Walter Peacock from 17 January to 7 February 1943 with two episodes on each Sunday. All but the last instalment, which ran for one and a half hours, were one hour long. [[Leslie Banks]] played Pierre while [[Celia Johnson]] was Natasha.
* In December 1970, [[Pacifica Foundation|Pacifica Radio]] station [[WBAI]] broadcast a reading of the entire novel (the 1968 [[Ann Dunnigan|Dunnigan]] translation) read by over 140 celebrities and ordinary people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/05funddrive/war.html |title=The War and Peace Broadcast: 35th Anniversary |access-date=2006-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209122629/http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/05funddrive/war.html |archive-date=2006-02-09 }}. Pacificaradioarchives.org</ref>
* A dramatised full-cast adaptation in 20 parts, edited by Michael Bakewell, was broadcast by the BBC between 30 December 1969 and 12 May 1970, with a cast including David Buck, Kate Binchy, and Martin Jarvis.
* A dramatised full-cast adaptation in ten parts was written by Marcy Kahan and Mike Walker in 1997 for [[BBC Radio 4]]. The production won the 1998 Talkie award for Best Drama and was around 9.5 hours in length. It was directed by Janet Whitaker and featured [[Simon Russell Beale]], Gerard Murphy, Richard Johnson, and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/mkahan.html |title=Marcy Kahan Radio Plays |access-date=2010-01-20 |work=War and Peace (Radio Dramatization)}}</ref>
* On New Year's Day 2015, [[BBC Radio 4]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wz7q2|title=War and Peace - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}</ref> broadcast a dramatisation over 10 hours. The dramatisation, by playwright [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], was directed by Celia de Wolff and starred [[Paterson Joseph]] and [[John Hurt]]. It was accompanied by a Tweetalong: live tweets throughout the day that offered a playful companion to the book and included plot summaries and entertaining commentary. The Twitter feed also shared maps, family trees and battle plans.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/a9644825-840d-46a4-b2b6-ce8da89aba50 |title=Is your New Year resolution finally to read ''War & Peace''? |author=Rhian Roberts |publisher=BBC Blogs |date=17 December 2014 }}</ref>

===Comics===
* In September 2022, Alexandr Poltorak adapted ''War and Peace'' into a graphic novel illustrated by Dmitry Chukhrai and published by [[Andrews McMeel Publishing|Andrews McMeel]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Tolstoy|first1=Leo|last2=Poltorak|first2=Alexandr|date=September 27, 2022|title=''War and Peace: The Graphic Novel''|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4FJ1PD6|publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing]]}}</ref>