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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060000404159
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 192230
Theatrical Release Date: March 22, 1939
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Sergei Eisenstein's landmark tale of Russia thwarting the German invasion of the 13th century was wildly popular and quite intentional, given the prevailing Nazi geopolitical advancement and destruction at the time. It can still be viewed as a masterful use of imagery and music, with the Battle on the Ice sequence as the obvious highlight. Unfortunately, the rest of the film pales in comparison. A great score by Prokofiev was effectively integrated by the Russian filmmaker, but stands on its own merit as well. --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An all time classic
This black and white movie is listed as one of the best 100 movies ever made, it has a cult following. The whole movie was actually filmed in Gorky Park in Moscow. It is a movie about the German invasion of the Republic of Novgorod in Northern Russia in 1242. The movie was released in 1938 just before the German invasion of Russia in WWII. The music on this VHS is much higher quality than the original movie audio.
The movie has some good sub plots, two guys wanting to marry the same girl, the ... Read More
Rating: - Classic film marred by sound problems.
Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)
Round up one hundred film buffs and ask them what they remember best about Alexander Nevsky. Chances are at least ninety-five of them will give you the same answer: the battle on the ice. And yeah, for 1938, with Russian technology (which was running well behind what the U.S., Germany, and Japan had at the time), it's pretty darned impressive. While the movie does have its faults-- most of which have been rectified in various ways, if you're lucky ... Read More
Rating: - Eisenstein's first sound film is propaganda, in the best sense
Eisenstein's first sound film retells the battle of the ice of 1242, when the Russians under Alexander Nevsky defeated the Livonian knights, eager to bring Russia under Roman Catholicism. Made in 1938, Nevsky can be seen as a piece of propaganda: the Germanic knights, with their sinister (and somewhat goofy) helmets are obvious stand-ins for the Nazis. The butchery by the knights when they enter a Russian town seems a prophetic warning of the massacres of World War II. The film ends with a warning: those ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting little film
I just watched this film for my Russian history class. Thus, my professor, who is Russian, obviously deems it a worthwhile representation of 13th century Russia. It is clearly an anti-German propaganda film, released in 1939 just as Hitler's armies were wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Interestingly enough, the film was banned later that year after Stalin and Hitler signed the Non-Agression Pact, only to be re-released with the onset of war in 1941. For a 1930's film, 'Alexander Nevsky' is quite well made. ... Read More
Rating:  - Xenophobia, and a desire to get in with Stalin
Alexander Nevsky has a huge and undeserved reputation as a film. As a film, it is a tour de force of editing and montage - the cinematography for the time is absolutely stunning, and is set among scenes that give the film its mythic properties. However, the score by Sergei Prokofiev wobbles from very good (nearly as compelling as the ballets) to laughable. It's the film's overwhelming political context that kills it, however.
Eisenstein made this film to please Stalin. As such, it is xenophobic, ... Read More
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