| Notes | First printing 2019
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with cinematographer Anatoly Petritsky and filmmaker Fedor Bondarchuk, son of director Sergei Bondarchuk
• Two documentaries, from 1966 and 1969, about the making of the film
• Television program from 1967 on actor Ludmila Savelyeva, featuring Sergei Bondarchuk
• New program with historian Denise J. Youngblood (Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace”: Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic) detailing the cultural and historical contexts for the film
• Janus Films rerelease trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor |
