Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film ...

So I guess Hitler didn t see this movie. From 1938, Sergei Eisenstein s patriotic anthem Alexander Nevsky is basically a warning to foreign invaders with a moral so clear that the movie repeats it ...

“It’s as if Michelangelo and Beethoven collaborated on ‘Jaws,’ ” says producer John Goberman of the 1938 film “Alexander Nevsky.” Goberman’s referring to filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei ...

There aren’t too many films like “Alexander Nevsky,” and that’s a shame. Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 account of a 13th-century battle between the Russians and the Germans is a truly collaborative effort ...

This is from “Alexander Nevsky,” the 1938 film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Music by Prokofiev. The snippet shows the beginning of “The Battle of the Ice,” an actual battle on April 5, 1242 when the ...

More than once in Sergei Eisenstein’s “Alexander Nevsky,” the titular 13th-century hero appears to stare down right into the audience as he delivers his solemn exhortations to the people. That’s no ...

There’s a thin line between art and entertainment, an equally thin one between entertainment and propaganda. Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, with its spectacular musical score by ...

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Now let's revisit a very different time in Russia from the majesty of the big screen. (Soundbite of music) SEABROOK: The violins sound faintly as two lone figures, cloaks flying in the wind, are ...