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A Balasaur Score of 78 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%. Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 73% of the 353 1930s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Ratings
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
238 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei EisensteinDirector
- Sergei EisensteinWriter
- Pyotr PavlenkoWriter
- Sergei ProkofievOriginal Music Composer
- Dmitriy VasilevDirector
Cast
- Nikolai CherkasovAlexander Nevsky
- Nikolai OkhlopkovVasili Buslai
- Andrei AbrikosovGavrilo Oleksich
- Valentyna IvashovaOlga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod
- Lev FeninThe Archbishop
- Sergei BlinnikovTverdilo - Traitorous Mayor of Pskov
- Nikolai ArskyDomash Tverdislavich - a Novgorod Boyar
- Varvara MassalitinovaAmelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother
- Naum RogozhinBlack monk
- Vasiliy NovikovPavsha, Vasilisa's father and voevoda of Pskov
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