Alexander Nevsky [DVD]

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Alexander Nevsky

(2001, original release: 1938)

Fiction

DVD

Series:

Criterion collection #87
Classic collection.

Call Numbers:

DVD/FOREIGN/RUSSIAN/ALEXANDER

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Movies	DVD/FOREIGN/RUSSIAN/ALEXANDER	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
©2001

DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN

0780023250 ALE020, 0780023242 (set)

LANGUAGE

Russian

SERIES

Criterion collection #87

Classic collection.

NOTES

1.33:1 aspect ratio

Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242

Originally released as motion picture in 1938

Special features include: new digital transfer, with extensive image and sound restoration ; audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell ; 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

Director, Sergei Eisenstein ; musical score, Sergei Prokofiev

Nikolai Cherkassov, N.P. Okhlopkov, A.L. Abrikossov, D.N. Orlov, V.K. Novikov

Not rated

DVD

Russian language soundtrack (mono) with optional English subtitles