Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev
Written By: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Pyotr Pavlenko
Starring: Nikolay Cherkasov, Andrei Abrikosov, Varvara Massalitinova, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Dmitriy Orlov, Vladimir Yershov, Sergei Blinnikov, Vasili Novikov, Vera Ivashova, Ivan Lagutin, Nikolai Arsky, Aleksandra Danilova
Genres: Drama, Action, War, History
AKA: Aleksandr Nevskiy
Country: Soviet Union
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Alexander Nevsky belongs to 51 collections
1. Criterion Collection (collaborative: moderated by caffe - 165 stars)
2. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2008 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Scottathon - 39 stars)
3. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 38 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2010 revision) (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 32 stars)
5. New York Times' The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 31 stars)
6. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 30 stars)
7. Netflix Instant (collaborative: moderated by somnivore - 29 stars)
8. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)
9. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2012 revision) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 25 stars)
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15. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2020 revision) (public: djross - 13 stars)
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18. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 11 stars)
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20. Epic (collaborative - 8 stars)
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22. Biographical (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 7 stars)
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MartinTeller | 66 28th |
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It has three major problems that keep it from being a movie I would want to see again: 1) The acting is pretty awful, 2) the propoganda is utterly lacking in subtlety, and 3) for the most part, it's dull as dirt. However, it so packed from start to end with astonishing, gorgeous, memorable images that I have to admit that from a photographic standpoint, it is truly a great film.
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JakeAesthete | 90 90th |
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Shameless propaganda has never looked so good...
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PeaceAnarchy | 77 51st |
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To say this lacks subtlety is to miss that it made no attempt to be subtle. It's not a historical epic with propaganda thrown in, it's blatant propaganda with a historical veneer to tie things together, and that veneer is a dull badly told story. But the images are striking, the battle scenes rousing and the score magnificent. Whether that makes this worth watching depends on how strongly you feel about proRussian antiGerman propaganda, and how much boredom you can take for technical proficiency
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Rufam | 45 9th |
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"Alexandre Nevsky" is as historically important as it is lethally boring. Not as visually audacious as Eisenstein's previous alleged classics ("Bronenosets Potyomkin" and "Oktyabr") and containing absolutely zero interesting elements -the plot is borderline, the characters nonexistent and the heavy-handed Russian patriotism distracting, this glorification of a legendary 13th century warrior fills film historians with glee and leaves everyone else yawning.
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| 1 | djfntstque | 63 32nd |
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Potent cinema, silly dialogue, even dumber history.
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Stain | 0 8th |
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Hideously awful. Imagine Ed Wood doing a historical battle epic. Even the Prokofiev score sucks
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TonythePony | 68 49th |
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Really hard to take seriously once they start lobbing babies into pyres.
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Luna6ix | 34 2nd |
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I have no idea why people like this movie, there's nothing about it that was done right. The action is clumsy and unrealistic, the acting is miserable, the subtitles were translated by somebody who had terrible command of the English language, it was boring and untastefully propogandic. The only good thing I can say about it is that the music was pretty decent.
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| 1 | sellis | 82 65th |
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If it wasn't for the last 20ish minutes, this would have been my favorite Eisenstein. It's a joy to watch him play with sound and image together, especially during the climactic battle. However, it really drags and becomes joylessly manipulative at the end.
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| 1 | Coheed | 65 45th |
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The stilted moments of drama unfortunately undercut this film's qualities. Even rewatching Nevsky now after many, many years, back at college, have past, it still falters when Eisenstein's silent films were completely succinct, pure cinema. Still, there is a charm to Nevsky, and it's still the creation of Eisenstein, moments where his gifts for visual composition are allowed to shine.
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Bagger | 40 12th |
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zzzzzzzzzzzzz .... oh that's the famous Ice battle? Thats kind of neat I gu---zzzzzzzzz
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mrarn | 32 9th |
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This is a poorly made propaganda film, it had almost no script. The characters are cartoon like and lack any personality. The battle scenes are built around lots of repetitive hacking.
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| Average Percentile 59.93% from 509 Ratings |  |