'ALEKSANDR NEVSKI' (1938) watched Friday 2nd May 2014
The extraordinary sound score of Prokofiev recorded on the soundtrack is unlike the familiar recordings. The flatulant horn motif representing the Teutonic invaders evokes an unnerving menace which adds to the impact of the visual storyboard imagery of Sergie Eisenstein. At times scenes become a caricature, almost comic, as the crushing of the Teuton helmets. Eisenstein had visited the United States with Grigori Aleksandrov and Ivor Montagu with a view to making a film in Hollywood of which scenarios 'Sutter's Gold' and 'An American Tragedy' were written.
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