Consul General of Russian Federation in Karachi Andrey V Demidov recently organised a movie night for a number of guests at the Russian Consulate. The event was attended by notable government officials and other dignitaries as well as their families. The film chosen for this night was ‘Alexander Nevsky’, a 1938 historical drama directed by Sergei Eisenstein, in association with Dmitri Vasilyev and a script co-written with Pyotr Pavlenko. It was produced by Goskino, with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role and a musical score by Sergei Prokofiev. ‘Alexander Nevsky’ was the most popular of Eisenstein’s three sound films. In 1941, Eisenstein, Pavlenko, Cherkasov and Abrikosov were awarded the Stalin Prize for the film. In 1978, the film was included in the world’s 100 best motion pictures according to the opinion poll conducted by Milan’s publishing house ‘A Mondadori’.
