heard about it in the first ask sandy. is it good?
it sounds good enough.A) Alexander Nevsky was directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the top ten film directors of all time. The music was specially composed for the film by Prokofiev, one of the all-time great music composers of the century. The film was funded by Stalin's Russia, which means that the battle scenes have thousands upon thousands of realistically-armed-and-equipped knights, infantry, crossbowmen, etc. going at it. The final battle on the ice of Lake Peipus has to be seen to be believed. Another realistic touch -- despite the awful villainy of the Teutonic Knights in the film (they throw babies into fires, murder old men, etc.), when their surviving leaders are captured after the Battle on the Ice, the Russians do not execute them, but ransom them. Also, the very start of the film has some Mongols show up briefly, and they are pretty darn terrific-looking, too, despite the fact that they are only a bit part.