nevsky be one of the great epic war film . sure and others and such a birth of a nation and napoleon have come before and but this one be just a influential . the acting be stock and but anyone who know the first thing about eisenstein would know that that be part of his theory of film . this film and unlike many of his silent work and be about the heroic individual as much a it be about the group . this reflect the stalinist philosophy that have rise to the fore by 1938. still and his film show u the power that can be generate by people come together to fight something they perceive a evil . nevsky be just one of many men . he be prince because he be strong and but not because he be somehow different than the rest . the film romantic angle provide more of a personal story than eisenstein have previously allow . not all of the element work and the film be probably a bit too long and but it still resonate .