The BBC dramatisation of all Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins directs the cast since Pierre Bezuhov (a role which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA). Morag Hood is your beautiful and impulsive Natasha Rostova. Alan Dobie is your dour but Andrei Bolkonsky that is heroic. And David Swift is currently Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has farreaching impacts for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families. The serial was the vision of producer David Conroy whose principle aim was to move episode and the characterisation in Tolstoy's greatest novel to a tv play. Scripted by Jack Pulman and headed by John Davies, Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Layout BAFTA) and stunning battle sequences that were filmed in former Yugoslavia.