Rimas Tuminas’ final Moscow production, the epic “War and Peace”, focuses on its three families as a microcosm of the human condition. The Napoleonic Wars become the background for the lives, ambitions, hopes, and sorrows of the open-hearted Rostovs, the honorable and uncompromising Bolkonskys, and the arrogant and ravishing Kuragins. Tuminas creates, explores, and comprehends destinies, paradoxes, madness, love, joy, and despair. The world he presents to the audience is beautiful, aesthetic, theatrical, and fragile, but at constant risk of being destroyed by the ominous comet already in the sky above.

Production: Vaktangov Theatre
Directed by Rimas Tuminas

Running time: 4h 21min with 10 min intermission