Tolstoy and the New York Times

[Alina Israeli]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:26 AM, John Dunn wrote:

> Lowering the tone by several octaves (if that's what tones are  
> measured in), I should perhaps alert you to the sumptuous, multi- 
> national, multi-lingual adaptation of War and Peace that RAI Uno  
> (the first channel of Italian state television) has just shown in  
> four 2-hour episodes.  The production involved six different co- 
> producers and actors from ten different countries, and while I have  
> no skills in multi-lingual lip-reading, I calculated that the  
> actors between them probably spoke their lines in six different  
> languages, though all was, naturally, dubbed into Italian.
>

Yes, here's the backstage clip:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x36o2p_guerra-e-pace-backstage-dal-21-otto_ads
Kostalevsky speaking Italian is at the very end.



Alina Israeli
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