# The best Leo Tolstoy adaptations

Bondarchuk's War and Peace, three centuries of Anna Karenina, The Living Corpse, The Cossacks and Father Sergius: the Tolstoy adaptations picked by Kino Mail.ru, Dom Kino and Kinomania.

- 5 votes · 14 items
- May 12, 2026 · Zhanna Ivanova
- https://even.best/en/l/4358/the-best-leo-tolstoy-adaptations

## Top 14

1. **Anna Karenina (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aleksandr Zarkhi. Tatiana Samoilova as Anna.
2. **The Living Corpse (1968)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vladimir Vengerov. Fedya Protasov and Aleksei Batalov.
3. **Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sergei Bodrov. Tolstoy's story moved to the Chechen war.
4. **L'Argent (1983)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Robert Bresson. From the novella The Forged Coupon.
5. **The Cossacks (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vasili Pronin. A Moscow officer in a Cossack village.
6. **Father Sergius (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Igor Talankin. Sergei Bondarchuk as the prince turned monk.
7. **Resurrection (1960–1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mikhail Shveitser. Nekhlyudov and Katyusha Maslova.
8. **The Kreutzer Sonata (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mikhail Shveitser and Sofiya Milkina. A jealous husband's confession on a train.
9. **Anna Karenina (1935)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clarence Brown. Greta Garbo.
10. **War and Peace (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — King Vidor. Audrey Hepburn as Natasha Rostova.
11. **Anna Karenina (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bernard Rose. Sophie Marceau, filmed in Russia.
12. **Anna Karenina (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joe Wright. Keira Knightley and a theatre stage.
13. **War and Peace (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tom Harper. The BBC miniseries with Lily James and Paul Dano.
14. **War and Peace (1965–1967)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sergei Bondarchuk. Four films, an Oscar and the Battle of Borodino.

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