Alexandre Nevski (film)

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Alexandre Nevski (in Russian: АлександрНевский) is a Soviet film epic carried out by Sergueï Eisenstein presented in 1938. The music, indissociable of work, is of Sergueï Prokofiev.

Synopsis

The film recalls an event headlight of the Russian history at the 13th century: opposition of the teutonic prince Alexandre Nevski to the invasion of the knights and in particular the Battle of the lake Peïpous which put an end to their Eastern expansion.

Comment

The film is an order of the Stalinist authorities and is designed at the origin like a film epic of propaganda against the Nazisme: the knights teutonic and their carry-swords, invaders of the territories Russian, are presented with Svastika S and helmets evoking those of the contemporary Wehrmacht and evoke a threat clearly. In September of the same year, is 2 months before the exit of film, the Accords of Munich avoided a war. Of this fact the reading of film must always be done on two levels: the 13th century marries a contemporary context. By this page of history, Russia shows that it is ready to be defended vis-a-vis an unspecified invader but already very designated.

Alexandre Nevski harangue people to face a double threat: Mongolian in the east, Teutons in the west. The Mongol is cheating, Teuton is a soldier without pity. Alexandre decides in the urgency to attack the man of war, the cheating one will have patience. Patriotic bravery mingles with stereotypes disseminated in the two camps: the coward, the generous one, the brave man, sacrificed.

The closes-up of faces of Edouard Woven, characteristic of films of Eisenstein, accentuate bravery or treachery.

Eisenstein sets up here the audio-visual counterpoint: the music of Prokofiev causes interesting contrasts with the images.

The realizer was very supervised for this film and the actors are members of the Party. Moreover, typing was prohibited as well as the intellectual assembly. But the feat of ingenuity of this film resides in the fact that in spite of the censure, the realizer succeeded has to revolutionize his own cinema.

Data sheet

  • original Title: Aleksandr Nevskii
  • Realization: Sergueï Eisenstein
  • Scenario: S.M. Eisenstein, Piotr Pavlenko
  • Photography: Edouard Woven
  • Decorations: Iossif Chpinel
  • Music: Sergueï Prokofiev
  • Assembly: E. Tobak
  • Country: Soviet Union
  • Lasted: 112 minutes
  • Coming out date: February 1st 1938 (the USSR)

Distribution

  • Nikolai Tcherkassov : Alexandre Nevski
  • Nikolai Okhlopkov: Vassili Bouslaï
  • Alexandre Abrikossov: Gavrilo Olexitch
  • Dimitri Orlov: the arms manufacturer

Around film

  • the film left in the USSR on February 1st 1938. The signature of the pact germano-Soviet (see: Pacte Molotov-Ribbentrop) the August 23rd 1939 caused the suspension of its exploitation. But with the release of the Operation Barbarossa the June 22nd 1941, the film reappeared to galvanize the patriotic fervour against the Germanic attack.
  • the partition of film, signed Sergueï Prokofiev, exists in the form of a Cantate in concert also titrated Alexandre Nevski .
  • There exists also a version of the partition, transcribed for Orchestre of harmony by the Canadian type-setter Yves Lapierre and created by the Harmony of the Council school of Music of Castelsarrasin.

See too

  • Alexandre Nevski on Internet Movie Database
  • Analysis of film on Dvdclassik

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