War and Peace (1966-1967)
Bondarchuk's 1966-67 Soviet seven-hour Tolstoy adaptation. The most expensive film ever made at that time.
Actor: Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk directed and starred in the Soviet War and Peace, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and involved a production of a scale no Western studio could have matched. He also directed Waterloo, and suffered a heart attack during the War and Peace shoot.