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1938

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Starring	Nikolai Cherkassov, Dmitri Orlov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
Director	Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vessiliev
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Alexander Nevsky

Nikolai Cherkassov stars as the legenday Alexander Nevsky in Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece of propaganda, made with the assistance of Stalin, to stir up Soviet audiences in anticipation of a Nazi invasion. Withdrawn from release after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, it returned to Russian theaters in 1941, following the commencement of hostilities. The film is set in 13th-century Russia, as the religious brotherhood of the Teutonic Knights runs rampant throughout the land. Following the brutal sack of the city of Pskov, the people of Novgorod must decide if they will fight the invaders or, like other cities, bribe them to obtain peace. Opting to fight, they call on their greatest military leader, Alexander Nevsky, who is still recuperating with his troops from defeating the Swedish army. The historic battle on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus, pitting the peasant army of Nevsky against the better-equipped German force, is one of the most impressive spectacles in film history, a visual symphony of mutual slaughter as powerful now as on the day of its release. Because of Eisenstein's use of linkage--seamless Hollywood-style editing rather than intellectual montage--and Prokofiev's evocative, rhythmically inventive score, ALEXANDER NEVSKY might be the most accessible of his films.

Starring	Nikolai Cherkassov, Dmitri Orlov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
Director	Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vessiliev
Studio	EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 48 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Brazilian Portuguese
Released	Production year: 1938 To Rent: DVD: 31 Mar 2003

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- A splendid historical pageant which shows the director at his most inventively pictorial and climaxes in a superb battle sequence using music instead of natural sound.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  Worth seeing for the film or Soviet History buff
  
  Much of Alexander Nevsky is interesting only from a historical point of view. For about 2/3rds of the film, you might be left a bit cold if you aren't a ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Jan 2004 at 15:32
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  another great Eisenstein film
  
  an absolutely brilliant classic Eisenstein film - albeit with sound and video quality of the late 30s - about an important part of early Russian history - at ... read more »
  
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  Propagandistic Art a Quailified Success
  
  This film is eerily prophetic of the later Nazi invasion of Russia, siege of Stalingrad and subsequent repulsion of the Germans in the harsh winter of 1944. ... read more »
  
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  - Grantham
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  A little dissapointed
  
  I rented thid DVD wanting to learn some facts about Alexander Nevsky but at the end I learnt nothing. At the begining of the movie some villagers debate about ... read more »
  
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  Nikolai Cherkassov stars as the legenday Alexander Nevsky in Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece of propaganda, made with the assistance of Stalin, to stir up Soviet audiences in anticipation of a Nazi invasion. Withdrawn from release after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, it returned to ...