Alexander Nevsky
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.
Special Features
- Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
- Russell Merritt’s multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
- 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
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
- Russell Merritt’s multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
- 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
Cast
- Nikolai Cherkasov
- Prince Alexander Nevsky
- Nikolai Okhlopkov
- Vasily Buslai
- Andrei Abrikosov
- Gavrilo Olexich
- Dmitri Orlov
- Ignat, Master Armorer
- Vasili Novikov
- Pavsha, Governor of Pskov
- Nikolai Arsky
- Domash Tverdislavich
- Varvara Massalitinova
- Amelfa Timofeevna, Mother of Buslai
Credits
- Director
- Sergei Eisenstein
- with the collaboration of
- Dmitri Vasilyev
- Screenplay
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Screenplay
- Pyotr Pavlenko
- Cinematography
- Eduard Tisse
- Editing
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Editing
- Esfir Tobak
- Original music by
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Lyricist
- Vladimir Lugovskoi
- Production design
- Isaac Shpinel
- Production design
- Nikolai Solovyov
- Costume design
- K. Yeliseev
- Sound
- Vladimir Popov
- Sound
- Boris Volsky
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