"Director: Sergei Bondarchuk"

• Waterloo | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sergei Bondarchuk directs this 1970s drama starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. After his abdication Napoleon Bonaparte (Steiger) is exiled to the island of Elba. However, he escapes to be reunited with his generals and troops and mounts a last desperate bid for power at the Battle of Waterloo. He has, however, reckoned without the British forces led by Arthur Welsley the Duke of Wellington (Plummer), who has just returned from a successful campaign in Spain.

• Waterloo | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.74   |  Saving you £-1.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A film that will never be equalled for its spectacle and dramatic power" says the stirring trailer on this otherwise sparsely featured DVD. Taking the story of the Napoleonic Wars to Bonapartes final defeat, Waterloo is an unofficial continuation to director Sergei Bondarchuks own 70mm super-epic War and Peace (1968). The climactic battle of Waterloo is shown in the second half of the film and re-enacted with such stunning realism by a cast of around 20,000 extras that it looks like documentary footage from history itself (some 20 years later, Gettysburg, 1993, did the same for the American Civil War). Those who hailed the groundbreaking impact of Saving Private Ryan should see Bondarchuks films, as for sheer scale and intensity--if not bloodiness--they make Spielbergs hit look like an amateur video. Without ever attempting a French accent, Rod Steiger makes a commanding Napoleon, Christopher Plummer a worthy adversary as Wellington, while the supporting cast led by Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins and Virginia McKenna is excellent. The DVD transfer is richly detailed and clear, though the print itself could have done with just a little restoration. Though dated, Abel Glances Napoleon (1928) remains definitive for many, perhaps explaining why Stanley Kubrick eventually abandoned his planned Napoleon film, instead making the 18th Century period epic Barry Lyndon (1974). --Gary S.Dalkin

• Waterloo - Special Edition (LIMITED TO 5,000 COPIES) | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First time on Blu-Ray in the UK. Waterloo is the 1970 epic period war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by legendary producer Dino De Laurentis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo and is famous for its lavish battle scenes. Starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France, and Jack Hawkins all contribute fine portraits of great men against a magnificent backdrop of battle and bloodshed.

• War And Peace | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This 3 DVD six-and-a-half-hour set features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen. The book was written in the nineteenth century and gives a graphic insight in to Russian society at the time and is still considered to be one of the greatest novel ever written. This classic film directed by Sergei Bondarachuk is considered to be the most faithful to the original novel and with a combination of amazing large scale battle scenes and intimate character portrayals this film is many peoples' favourite interpretation of Tolstoy's classic novel... The story follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe culminating in the French invasion of Russia in 1812. The evil effects of war are a significant theme and war forms the backdrop as it influences the lives of these families and their many associates.

• Orson Welles - Screen Legends | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What more is there to say about Orson Welles? One of the most talented and enigmatic artists that Hollywood has ever seen this box set gathers several films in his oeuvre for your viewing pleasure. Citizen Kane (Dir. Orson Welles 1941): In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hai

• War And Peace | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Academy Award Winner - Best Foreign Film 1968 - This 3 DVD features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen.

• Quiet Flows the Don | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £9.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (25.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Nobel-Prize winning novel by Mikhail A Sholokov, this epic deals with both heroes and villains of the uprisings during WWI, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

• War And Peace: Collector's Edition | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  War and Peace is a portrait of Russia and her people caught up in the swirling and irresistible tides of history during the Napoleonic Era. Director Sergei Bondarchuk's Oscar-winner flawlessly re-creates Tolstoy's epic masterpiece capturing not only the most minute historical details but also the emotion essence and atmosphere of the classic novel. Hailed as the definitive marriage between literature and film it took five years to complete costing over $100 000 000. It is estim

• War and Peace | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Eight-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. 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.

• Orson Welles - Citizen Kane/Waterloo/The Lady From Shanghai/A Man For All Seasons | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £30.90   |  Saving you £-0.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Citizen Kane (Dir. Orson Welles 1941): In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinematography brilliant ensemble acting and direction by Welles the story of Charles Foster Kane is a fascinating portrait of America's love of power and materialism and the corruption it sometimes fosters. Like all great films Citizen Kane is a memorable fusion of cinematic art and marvellous entertainment. Waterloo (Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk 1970): Waterloo is a film on an epic scale with a cast to match. Rod Steiger Christopher Plummer Orson Welles and Jack Hawkins all contribute brilliant performances of great men against a magnificent backdrop of battle and bloodshed. Napoleon's final bid for power and glory and his narrow defeat at Waterloo. Lady From Shanghai (Dir. Orson Welles 1948): Fascinated by the gorgeous Mrs. Bannister (Hayworth) seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) joins a bizarre yachting cruise and ends up mired in a complex murder plot... A Man For All Seasons (Dir. Fred Zinnemann 1966): A Man For All Seasons: a motion picture for all time! Winner of six Academy Awards - including 1966 Best Picture - A Man For All Seasons stars Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More a respected English statesman whose steadfast refusal to recognise King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn cost him his head.

• War and Revolution | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Nobel prize-winning novel Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail A Sholokov, this epic deals with both heroes and villains of the uprisings during WWI, the Bolshevik revolution and the Russian Civil War.The first revolts threaten the power of the Czar Nicholas II. In the village of Tatarsjuky, on the shores of the river Don, lives the Cossack family of Melechov.Gregor (Rupert Everett) considers military service as the only way to find fulfilment as a man and to escape from his patriarchal family ruled by his stern father Pantaleimon (F. Murray Abraham).

• Sergei Bondarchuk -War And Peace | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  War and Peace This 3 DVD six-and-a-half-hour set features the 1968 film and brings all the passion and turbulence of Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece dramatically to the screen. The book was written in the nineteenth century and gives a graphic insight in to Russian society at the time and is still considered to be one of the greatest novel ever written.