Alexander Nevsky

On the eve of World War II, the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin) and Sergei Prokofiev were whisked into service as Russia readied itself for battle—and so the epic Alexander Nevsky, the stirring tale of a ragtag Russian army battling a powerful invader, came to be.

We will play a short 10-minute film featuring Russian Pianist Daniil Trifonov playing the first movement of Rachmaninov’s Fourth Concerto before the showing of Alexander Nevsky.