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Sergei Bondarchuk

Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker (1920–1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
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Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker, born in Ukraine, who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping period dramas, including War and Peace (1966-67), his internationally acclaimed four-part film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, and for Waterloo (1970), a Napoleonic War epic.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sergei Bondarchuk” as soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker (1920–1994). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sergei, Bondarchuk and Soviet can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker (1920–1994). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1966 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sergei Bondarchuk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.