Alexander Nevsky (Aleksandr Nevskiy)

"History shows that there are no invincible armies and never have been." - Stalin, 1941 When the Nazis rose to power, the Soviets knew what was coming. They reached out to Britain and France, asking for alliance. Fearing communism and liberation more than their allies in…

Sally Jane Black

every single cinematic depiction of medieval warfare is indebted to this film and to eisenstein, the way the central 30-minute battle is staged is the exact way that kurosawa, ridley scott, john milius and peter jackson would later do it, this symphony of swords clanging…

comrade_yui

Alexander Nevsky was a difficult movie to digest. This legendary Soviet propaganda movie didn't make all that much impression on first viewing, but it had something drawing me to it making me watch it a second time to see if there was something I missed the first…

PUNQ

Next time you need to make your villain more unlikable just have him throw babies into a fire.

Brock Ferlaak

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Eisenstein's most propagandist masterpiece, historically speaking, and first sound feature is an immortalized epic drama with well established objectives, transferring the ideologies of the proletariat to a more…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

This is as about elegantly made as movies get, which is sort of funny since it's like, about war

Neil Bahadur

alexander nevsky looks great and sounds even better, with huge battle scenes and prokofiev’s epic score, but it’s more impressive than engaging. the pacing drags, the characters feel like symbols, and the propaganda is laid on thick. worth seeing once for its historical…

meyi

If propaganda were a painting genre, for sure it would not be watercolours. The best image would be a prophet or a fool who furiously hammers a stone block hoping that the face of a saint, a hero or a leader will emerge. Casually, all these characteristics belong to the…

harrylime66

It is a Russian epic about Alexander Nevsky, a prince from a region of Russia who united a village to form an army and defeat the Teutonic Knights. The film was also created for ideological propaganda purposes, portraying Alexander as a virtuous and flawless hero. The…

Erhard K