Alexander Nevsky : Sergei Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilev
I find it quite bewildering that only the underprivileged lands are the victim of imperial aggression. But I have watched many movies like Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky [1938] and read many books and seen many paintings where the lands which we think of as imperialist were the victims of imperialism and colonialism. I got some analogous scenes using the excruciating cruelty and violence on the children in most of his movies. A kid was thrown out from the roof on the day of mass killing by police in Strike; a toddler in the stroller was fallen down through the staircases in the midst of police shooting and the most horrible one in Alexander Nevsky [1938], a Russian baby was thrown into fire by a German soldier. It was not less horrendous than sati pratha in Hindu malpractice in India. Alexander Nevsky was maybe the first rom-com where a love triangle had been shown in a comedic way in a histo-drama narrative. How did Vasili Buslai ...