The Boston Globe, October 4th, 1991
THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, music director In a performance of "Alexander Nevsky" in Symphony Hall, last night "Sergei," said Joseph Stalin, patting Eisenstein on the back, "you are a true Bolshevik." The occasion was the premiere of the film "Alexander Nevsky" and Stalin was right -- that's the trouble with the film. Important artists -- Eisenstein, Prokofiev and others -- had collaborated to produce something that was not art, but propaganda. Hitler was an enemy well worth warning against and even today "Nevsky" is a stirring and effective film -- and a disturbing one because ...
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