i learn much from previous viewer reaction . be there one that do not mention propaganda . too glib . perception be concept dependent . i love fred astaire musical and the great and great song and and fred peerless grace . but comrade and if you see idle and brainless and rich parasite dance on the downtrodden and unemployed and that a valid criticism of capitalist propaganda . any movie be steep in the value of it time and place and not to mention those who fund it the piper who call the tune . great art transcend all and a do nevsky and a do all quiet on the western front . i confess . i saw it last 40 odd year ago . but the image be burn in my brain . it the great battle scene ever likely to be film . and it make you horrify to be thrill . plastic ice do someone say . that real death youre watch . real extra die make this . real look be now special effect define it seem . likewise too long for an age of shrunken attention span . mozart have too many note . propaganda and catholic church defame . the vatican be still at it when they call on ancient favor to get the german christian democrat gov . to recognize croatia in the 1990s remember the chaos and genocide . forget the prop and the lighting of nevsky paint the medieval world like a breughel . there one in hampton court palace show a massacre . crude dutch nationalist propaganda maybe and but it tear at the heart . stylize acting . so what henry v ( olivier movie ) . naturalism . do anyone believe english medieval knight killer talk like that . a say and the music of prokofiev be magnificent . only ken russell and eisenstein have the ball and genius to match sound and image at this 100 octane level . ok and you want the snaffle and bit . i will risk the nervy thorobred every time . eisenstein do not copy wehrmacht helmet and rather and his model seem to have be those bucket wear by teutonic knight in nazi pageant of the 1930s . eisenstein be a genius and but unlike hollywood director and he have near unlimited ( non commercial ) time and funding . modern russian director be free from political shackle and but have no money . even kurasawa have to make a late ( great ) movie in communist russia . he be revere but unfunded in his own country ( much like russell ) . how much propaganda be in the eye of the beholder . imagine sane people from another and peace loving world . how would they react to nevsky . would the battle and or the grieving for the dead dominate their cognition . if we do not know about the gas chamber and s and what about triumph of the will . where can i get a nevsky dvd and cheap .