BBC's sexy 'soap opera' adaptation of War and Peace shocks Russians
By Anna Malpas in Moscow | China Daily | Updated: 2016-02-06 08:06
With displays of cleavage, incest and torrid sex, the BBC's new adaptation of War and Peace has startled Russians even if many liked its "clever" take on Leo Tolstoy's epic novel.
The racy love scenes, notably, came as a shock in a country where television tends more towards the prudish.
A"classic with cleavage", was how the Saint Petersburg-based news website Fontanka.ru dubbed Andrew Davies' treatment of the 1869 masterpiece, starring Lily James and Paul Dano.
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