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.

Audrey Hepburn
as Natasha Rostova

Henry Fonda
as Pierre Bezukhov

Mel Ferrer
as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Vittorio Gassman
as Anatol Kuragin

Herbert Lom
as Napoleon

Oskar Homolka
as Field Marshal Kutuzov

Anita Ekberg
as Helene Kuragina

Barry Jones
as Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov

May Britt
as Sonia Rostova

Jeremy Brett
as Nikolai Rostov