With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

1982 film by Sergei Bondarchuk

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar. Events continued to spin out of control as a young monk was presented as the son Godunov had supposedly killed. Now he was openly accused of failing an assassination attempt, which seems to be even worse than succeeding. In addition to these woes, Boris Godunov began to suffer serious health problems. So much for the joys of kingship.

根据美国记者约翰·里德的报告文学《震撼世界的十天》改编，全面描绘了俄国十月革命的壮丽图景。

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

获1959年莫斯科国际电影节大奖，并获1960年的列宁奖金。影片忠实地表现了肖洛霍夫的一个哲理思想：任何事物也不能阻止万物苏生。
影片的故事内容已被它的片名所概括了，它表现了一个普通的人在卫国战争中所经历的家破人亡的悲惨遭遇。战争刚爆发，木工索阔洛夫就上了前线，在战争中，他走过了一条苦难的艰巨道路：他被浮过；在集中营里做过受尽折磨的苦工；又机智地驾车回到了苏军阵地，还俘获了一个德冠少校，带来了重要的情报。战争使索阔洛夫失去了人间所有的亲人和温暖的家，但他并没有变得冷酷无情，并没有被痛苦折磨得失去生存的意志。他不仅自己要坚强地活下去，而且还要以破碎的心灵中的全部的爱去温暖一个无依无靠的弱小生命。影片结尾索阔洛夫把同样在战争中失去一切亲人、露宿街头的小男孩凡尼亚认作儿子这场戏充分地阐明了作品的主题思想：一个遭受战争创伤的人，没有理由永久地为自己的痛楚而哭泣，只要他还活着，他就应该不吝惜自己的爱，去温暖比他更弱小的生命。索阔洛夫终于在生活中找到了精神支柱，这支柱就是人道主义的力量。索阔洛夫是以人道主义的精神来医治自己心灵的创伤的。他在抚慰这颗幼小的心灵的过程中，忘却了自己的伤痕。影片作者自始至终遵循的一个基本创作原则就是真实，这真实是严峻而残酷的。
本片的导演技巧和造型处理都具有较高的水平，在运用电影表现手段方面是出色而大胆的，并具有革新精神。片中有十分独特的蒙太奇转换，又有前所未有的仰俯拍镜头，影片拍摄时还动用了直升飞机。摄影师弗·莫纳霍夫有自己独特的风格。《一个人的遭遇》是一部独白式的影片，是谢·邦达尔丘克自导自演的，对话极为简约而洗练，影片以卓越的造型处理丰富了原小说的内涵。邦达尔丘克后来拍摄了《战争与和平》《他们为祖国而战》，他曾亲自参加过卫国战争。1956年他曾来我国参加过“苏联电影周”期间的活动。
个别评论文章认为影片的调子太低沉，但舆论界和广大观众还是肯定这部影片的。

The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.