this film be one of the classic of cinema history . it be not make to please modern audience and so some people nowadays may think it be creaky or stilted . i find it to be absorb throughout . cherkassov have exactly the right presence to play alexander nevskyi and just a he do when he play ivan groznyi ( ivan the terrible ) several year later . the music be beautiful . my one complaint be the poor soundtrack that be quite garble . although i only know a little russian and it would have be nice to be able to pick out more word rather than have to rely almost 100 % on the subtitle . i be watch this on an old videotape from the library and though . perhaps by now a dvd version exists on which the sound have be enhance . i would like to know whether the actor be use archaic russian or even old church slavonic when they be speak . the subtitle be strangely word and and it hard for me to tell whether this be to reflect an old manner of speaking and or whether the subtitle be just somewhat poorly do .