Prince Andrei in a state between life and death in Sergei Bondarchuk’s 6.5 hour EDITED movie version of War and Peace.  

It’s a fantastic film and inferred that one has read the novel before watching the film.  A few of my classmates got together and watched the film on one looong Saturday (picture taken at that time).

“”Yes, that was death.  I died-I woke up.  Yes, death is an awakening.”  Clarity suddenly came to his soul, and the curtain that until then had concealed the unknown was raised before his inner gaze.  He felt the release of a force that previously had been as if bound in him and that strange lightness which from then on did not leave him.”

- Prince Andrei, War and Peace, Volume IV, Part One, XVI by Leo N. Tolstoy (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation)