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Bookmark this pageAlexander Nevsky (1938)
Director: Sergei M Eisenstein
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Eisenstein's first project to reach completion in nearly ten years, Alexander Nevsky is widely regarded as an artistic and political disaster, despite its wide international popularity. Conceived as a kind of nationalist epic (and approved as such by Stalin), it resurrects the 13th-century hero Nevsky as an almost mythic guardian of the Russian heritage, and celebrates his victories against the Teutonic invaders; it was read as an anti-Nazi film during the war. It's easy to see why the mixture of religiosity, caricature and bold aestheticism has pleased many of the people some of the time. It's main interest now is that it cleared the way for the infinitely richer and more complex achievement of Ivan the Terrible.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Sergei M Eisenstein
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Alexandr Abrikosov, Dmitri Orlov, Vera Ivacheva, Anna Danilova full cast
Genre(s): Epics
Duration: 112 mins
US Release: Mar 22 1939
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