The film epic War and Peace directed by Sergei Bondarchuk after the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy will be demonstrated at the Lincoln Center this week.

      It will be a thoroughly restored version of the film that is going to be screened in four episodes on the initiative of the American Society of Cinematographers.

      The New York Times reported on Monday with reference to Professor Denise Youngblood, the author of “War and Peace, Bondarchuk: From Literary Classics to Soviet Epos”, the restored film is considered one of the most important cinema creations of the Soviet era. This is an outstanding work, which can never be repeated”, - The New York Times reports.

      “The incredible scale of support provided during the film shooting is noticeable in every great frame of this seven-hour film epic,” - the newspaper emphasizes.

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