Seven-hour epic poem based on the book by Leo Tolstoy. Two major story lines are complex and intertwined. One is the romance of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is miserable in his marriage. Another is that the"Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. Russia from most types of society's people stand up united against the enemy.