Nevsky/Stalin

[Ray Easton]

On Tuesday, Jun 5, 2007, at 09:52 US/Central, kelber at mindspring.com 
wrote:

> Keith then dismissed the movie as Stalinist propaganda.  Is this 
> really how people view that movie?

Leaving aside the question of whether or not Keith's reading of 
Nevsky==Stalin in the film is correct, the film most certainly *is* 
Stalinist propaganda -- quite explicitly so.   It was made to serve 
Stalin's aims at the time.

[But that does not mean (to me) that it thereby loses the right to be 
considered as "art" or that it can simply be dismissed.]

Ray