Now let's revisit a very different time in Russia from the majesty of the big screen. (Soundbite of music) SEABROOK: The violins sound faintly as two lone figures, cloaks flying in the wind, are ...

Jeremy Kagan began to follow cinema after watching Alexander Nevsky (1938) by Sergei Eisenstein in high school. After he graduated from Harvard University in 1967, he studied at New York University’s ...

Born to progressive parents, Victoria Hochberg grew up in New York City surrounded by political discussions. At 10 years old, she saw Eisenstein’s historical drama Alexander Nevsky (1938), a film that ...

The lighthearted ballroom scene from the film score Hamlet, by Dmitri Shostakovich and the dark Russian angst of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky are both represented on a concert from Estonia. First, ...