Zoya Rupasova

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. After a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns back home. Everything in his estate is so familiar and dear to his heart. On his first visit to his neighbors, the Kalitins, he meets Lisa. He forgets his wife, left in Paris, forgets all his past. He desires only one thing – to always be with Lisa who is so unlike the women he used to know.

The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...

Mientras Moscú es incendiada por los rusos en retirada, los Rostov huyen de su propiedad, llevándose consigo a los soldados heridos y, sin que ellos lo sepan, también a Andrei. Pierre, vestido de campesino, intenta asesinar a Napoleón pero es hecho prisionero. Cuando los franceses se ven obligados a retirarse, lo hacen marchar durante meses con la Grande Armée, hasta que un grupo de asalto lo libera. Los franceses son derrotados por Kutuzov en la Batalla de Krasnoi. Andrei es reconocido y llevado a su finca. Perdona a Natasha en su lecho de muerte. Se reúne con Pierre y se casan mientras se reconstruye Moscú.

Campaña napoleónica de 1812. Rusia contempla el implacable avance de las tropas napoleónicas hacia sus fronteras. La idílica vida de los miembros de la alta sociedad (el príncipe Andréi Bolkonsky, el soñador e idealista Pierre Bezukhov o la joven Natacha Rostova) sufrirá un dramático cambio. Antes, los aristócratas, la gente corriente y los siervos vivían en mundos completamente diferentes. Ahora, la necesidad de defender la patria los ha convertido en compañeros de armas.