One Brief Moment Shows Eisenstein's Genius

One of the Finest Battle Scenes Ever filmed

Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1946)

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

¡Que viva México! Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!

Iosif Gerasimovich in The General Line (1929)

Oleg Zhakov in Ivan the Terrible, Part III (1946)

Go tell all in foreign lands that Russia lives! Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand will die by the sword! On that Russia stands and forever will we stand!

Sergei Eisenstein in October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

Nikolay Cherkasov in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Nikolay Cherkasov and Dmitriy Orlov in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Sergei Eisenstein in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Nikolay Cherkasov and Andrei Abrikosov in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Blinnikov, Lev Fenin, Nikolai Vitovtov, Vladimir Yershov, and A. Gulkovski in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Nikolay Cherkasov and Valentina Ivashova in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Nikolay Cherkasov

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Andrei Abrikosov

Sergei Eisenstein

Pyotr Pavlenko

The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

Dmitriy Vasilev

Aleksandr Nevskiy

One Brief Moment Shows Eisenstein&apos;s Genius

I&apos;ve loved this movie since the first time I saw it lo these many years ago. I&apos;m not sure how many times I&apos;ve seen it, perhaps 10, perhaps 20. This last time I watched it I was struck by a detail that I hadn&apos;t noticed before.

Toward the end of the picture, the slain heroes are conveyed back to the town via sled. There are a couple of closeups of the dead men. The one that struck me most was a shot of the blond youth. All you see on the screen is his profile from head to hands. His hands hold a flickering candle. The wind is blowing and his thick blond hair is dancing in the wind, in sync with the flicker of the candle flame. The contrast between death and the life he has lost is incredibly powerful. The moving hair and candle flame remind us of the life force that once inhabited his body.

Every time I revisit this film I see something new.

I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it lo these many years ago. I'm not sure how many times I've seen it, perhaps 10, perhaps 20. This last time I watched it I was struck by a detail that I hadn't noticed before.

Toward the end of the picture, the slain heroes are conveyed back to the town via sled. There are a couple of closeups of the dead men. The one that struck me most was a shot of the blond youth. All you see on the screen is his profile from head to hands. His hands hold a flickering candle. The wind is blowing and his thick blond hair is dancing in the wind, in sync with the flicker of the candle flame. The contrast between death and the life he has lost is incredibly powerful. The moving hair and candle flame remind us of the life force that once inhabited his body.

Every time I revisit this film I see something new.

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