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At a cost of 8.29 million Rbls (equal to US$ 9.21 million at 1967 rates, or $60–70 million in 2019, accounting for rouble inflation) it was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union. Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in the USSR.
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy. An early ...
War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter ...
In March 2008, after cycling through several real estate brokers, Trump lowered the asking price to $100 million. On July 16, 2008, Trump sold the home to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev through his County Road Property LLC, [13] for $95 million. At the time it was the most expensive residential property sale to ever occur in the United ...
He is possibly based on Tolstoy's cousin Prince Sergey Volkonsky, who was a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and later a Decembrist. [citation needed] However, author Laura Jepsen's view is that unlike "many of the other characters for whom the author found living prototypes, Prince Andrei is entirely fictitious".
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. Not all films have remained true to the genuine history of the event or the characters they are portraying, often adding action and drama to increase the substance and popularity of the film.
It was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. [1] The play tells the story of two Soviet cosmonauts stranded aboard their space station without any contact with Earth, a Scottish civil servant who disappears amid a midlife crisis, his wife, a speech therapist, looking for him, a Norwegian peace negotiator, a French UFO researcher and a ...
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