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.

Ludmila Savelyeva
as Natasha Rostova

Sergey Bondarchuk
as Pierre Bezukhov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Andrei Bolkonsky

Viktor Stanitsyn
as Ilya Andreyevich Rostov

Kira Golovko
as Countess Rostova

Oleg Tabakov
as Nikolai Rostov

Sergei Yermilov
as Petya Rostov

Irina Gubanova
as Sonya

Anatoli Ktorov
as Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky

Antonina Shuranova
as Princess Mariya