De Laurentiis was able to use director Sergei Bondarchuk (who was Russian) to strike a deal with the Soviets that meant they could not only film Waterloo in the USSR, but would pay bargain ...

While the film is known for its authentic battle sequences without the use of special effects, many fans of the genre are likely unaware that it was part-financed by the Soviet Union in the midst ...

German and Soviet soldiers are shown as professionals ... The director of War and Peace and Waterloo wanted his film to be as authentic as possible. He made the actors spend days in military ...

Russian actor Oleg Vidov ... according to an official release. Vidov’s film credits include “Battle of Neretva,” “Waterloo,” where he worked alongside Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer ...

But Poland’s post-Communist heir to the reciprocal rights of 1,100 Soviet films included in the same series of copyright deals, the Polish Film Institute, is a public, nonprofit body and cannot ...

A film shot in Northamptonshire 100 years ago about the Battle of Waterloo is being re-enacted to celebrate the anniversary of its filming. Filmed in 1913 in Irthlingborough, hundreds of local ...

When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union ...