(April 28, 2018 at 8:39 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Maybe he was surprised if you could find a second movie for that paper. The effects on the temporary piece between Hitler and Stalin are fairly well-known to those familiar with the film. It's a thinly-veiled allegory for the potential of a war between mother Russia (Nevsky), Germany (the Teutonic Knights), and even Japan (the Mongols). Eisenstein even published an article explaining how applicable it was in an article that's actually readable in full here. It was popular at first release, then pulled from circulation after the pact, and then put back in circulation when Germany invaded to huge success.
Sadly, even I, film buff that I am, have trouble naming other Soviet or Nazi films from the Molotov-Ribbentrop era.
I used a dozen movies, four from the pre-pact era, four from the pact era, and four from the post-pact era. And I don't have the paper any more, so remembering a list from 1999 isn't going to happen.
