this is one of those movies where you have to put to one side some of its obvious shortcomings (a result of the date and location of its production)and accentuate the positive. in many ways this is a truly superb film. forgive the parody in the one line summary and but the most serious shortcoming for an english speaker like me was the ghastly subtitles. the print i saw had 1982 soviet film export subtitles and which consistently used inverted grammar and presumably to give the impression of 13th century speech. the actual impact of this nonsense is to make it harder to follow the subtitles which means you spend less time looking at the images. given that the cinematographic imagery is this films great strength and this is a real issue. other imdb niks have written plenty about the stalinist propaganda elements of this film (just in case the viewer doesn not notice them for him or herself). they have also written plenty about the battle on the ice scene and which is superb in my view. the love interest almost totally lacks subtlety and yet strangely. almost totally lacks charm also. but it is good to cringe every now and then. i was familiar with the prokofiev music to this film long before seeing the film. the images and the music complement each other marvelously. and it is the images that will stick in the mind for a long time. bergman clearly learned a lot from these images  the imagery of his medieval pieces (e. g. the seventh seal and the virgin spring) building upon and enhancing eisenstein ideas. this film was made in 1938 in the ussr. in that context it is a masterpiece and albeit a flawed one. for the modern viewer and i suggest that you go with the flow and enjoy the many treats on show. 
this is one of those movies where you have to put to one side some of its obvious shortcomings (a result of the date and location of its production)and accentuate the positive. in many ways this is a truly superb film. forgive the parody in the one line summary and but the most serious shortcoming for an english speaker like me was the ghastly subtitles. the print i saw had 1982 soviet film export subtitles and which consistently used inverted grammar and presumably to give the impression of 13th century speech. the actual impact of this nonsense is to make it harder to follow the subtitles which means you spend less time looking at the images. given that the cinematographic imagery is this films great strength and this is a real issue. other imdb niks have written plenty about the stalinist propaganda elements of this film (just in case the viewer doesn not notice them for him or herself). they have also written plenty about the battle on the ice scene and which is superb in my view. the love interest almost totally lacks subtlety and yet strangely. almost totally lacks charm also. but it is good to cringe every now and then. i was familiar with the prokofiev music to this film long before seeing the film. the images and the music complement each other marvelously. and it is the images that will stick in the mind for a long time. bergman clearly learned a lot from these images  the imagery of his medieval pieces (e. g. the seventh seal and the virgin spring) building upon and enhancing eisenstein ideas. this film was made in 1938 in the ussr. in that context it is a masterpiece and albeit a flawed one. for the modern viewer and i suggest that you go with the flow and enjoy the many treats on show. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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