In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

• Mosfilm
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Ludmila Savelyeva
• Anastasiya Vertinskaya
• Viktor Stanitsyn
• Kira Golovko
• Oleg Tabakov
• Nikolay Kodin