Celebrating 200 Years

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How a Soviet propaganda film reminded me what I need in a movie

(10/27/25 4:00pm)

As I settled down in my dorm room with my Bell Tower gyro bowl and clicked play on my computer, my expectations were low. I was about to watch Sergei Eisenstein's “Alexander Nevsky,” a 1938 Soviet propaganda film about a 13th-century Russian prince who defeated the German Teutonic knights, preventing them from invading the kingdom of Rus. This movie was not my first choice of entertainment that afternoon, but rather part of a homework assignment for the Havighurst Colloquium.