Wow. This is heavy stuff. Russians in tunics. Generals. Warfare. Wow those Germans were hardcore. The whole city-state helping (or not helping) fellow city-states thing kind of reminded me of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Really not too terribly bad for a propaganda film/musical?

Compare with Andrei Rublev, or don’t.

Note: Comes with excellent commentary/discussion of Prokofiev and Eisenstein’s collaboration and innovation. This is film history.