Alexander Nevsky

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Alexander Nevsky

Director:
Sergei Eisentein
108 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Eisenstein drew on history, Russian folk narratives, and the techniques of Walt Disney to create this broadly painted epic of Russian resilience. This story of Teutonic knights vanquished by Prince Alexander Nevsky's tactical brilliance resonated deeply with a Soviet Union concerned with the rise of Nazi Germany. Widely imitated - most notably by Laurence Olivier's Battle of Agincourt re - creation for Henry V - the Battle on the Ice scene remains one of the most famous audio - visual experiments in film history, perfectly blending action with the rousing score of Sergei Prokofiev.

Available only as part of the Eisenstein: The Sound Years Box Set

 

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Details

Runtime:
108 min.

Genres:
Foreign Language
War
Action

Country:
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Language:
Russian

Color:
Black & White

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Special Features: 

  • Gorgeous new digital transfer, with extensive image and sound restoration
  • Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
  • Russell Merritt's multimedia essay on the Eisenstein - Prokofiev collaboration
  • A reconstruction of Eisenstein's unfinished film Bezhin Meadow by the Eisenstein Museum's Naum Kleiman, plus scholar Jay Leyda's photos and documents from the set
  • Drawings and production stills
  • Restoration demonstration
  • New English subtitle translation
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

 

 

 

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