“War and Peace” in the British teleekranizatsii. According to critics – Express-News

07.01 | 19:04

BBC Television BBC began airing the first series created in collaboration with the American company Weinstein Company film “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy novel. The new version of the novel immediately aroused heated discussion, which turned out to be quite expected.

First of all, as it turned out, none of the actors, starring in teleekranizatsii “War and Peace”, have not read the work itself before working on the film . And even forced to read the 1200-page epic is already in the process of filming, some of the actors could not overpower it. But the shooting continued, no less than two years.

This part of the work on the adaptation of the great novel is virtually impossible to estimate – it is so shocking. “War and Peace”, with all its international fame, has long passed into the category of literary masterpieces, like the Homeric poems, “Don Quixote”, the content of which is better known to most of his contemporaries film and theatrical transposition than on the most original. How to treat this, you can argue all you want, but this situation changed little. Therefore, the appearance of the film adaptation has become an important, though, of course, shaped the richness and beauty of the original text can be erased with modern patterns, but the problems remain, and if the cause will take talented directors and actors, it is quite possible that there will be a new look at the product. At the same time, in any case, millions of people will have an opportunity to get acquainted with a masterpiece, they are often known only by name.

But this is the case with the inexperienced spectator, not included in the category of “experts”. With the public aware of the case more complicated, since this category of viewers is partial, brought up to the level of fault-finding, the desire and the desire to compare the latest adaptation of the previous and the work itself. Position the six authors of the serial version of “War and Peace” is complicated by the fact that in Britain today lives many Russian-speaking audience, which knows first hand the novel by Leo Tolstoy, and his adaptation of Sergei Bondarchuk. This audience and set the tone for today’s discussion is the TV version of the product, adapted 79-year-old screenwriter Andrew Davis and 35-year-old director Tom Harper.

It is worth noting that Davis owns such well-known and popular with viewers serials like “Vanity Fair “” Bleak House, “” Pride and Prejudice “, not to mention the” house of cards ».

Director Tom Harper is less well known: His two television series – horror film” The Woman in Black “and playful fantasy “Dobyvayki”.

Still, experts say that the film is not (yet) the historical or artistic untruth – “cranberry”, which often guilty western adaptation of Russian classics.

The winning proved author’s decision to shoot in Russia, in St. Petersburg. Moscow “plays” Old Town in Vilnius, and to the battle scenes came Novgorod.

If we talk about the actors, that is, first of all, the 31-year-old Paul Dano, who plays Pierre Bezukhov, who is sympathetic, though none It does not negate the advantages of 45-year-old Sergei Bondarchuk, who acted in the same role in his epic. And, of course, the Soviet film will be the yardstick by which to check Russian viewers when watching this version.

Still, the main problem of the film adaptation, according to the browser Gardian, is that it is too “English ».

« We had to hear the deepest voices of Russian choir and see the sailboats built by computer graphics on the Neva “- complains omissions browser.