Alexander (2008 film)

Plot

The film starts with Nevsky's wedding which involves an attempt of poisoning by his former friend Ratmir. Yashka, a jester at the wedding tried to warn him but was dragged away and was put under a table by the Nevsky's guards. Desperate to serve his leader as a savior, not only as a fool, Yashka comes out of the table and drinks from Nevsky's cup in which suspected poison was placed. After the attempt, Ratmir escapes the ceremony and gallops away on a horse. After the ceremony, Alexander orders to find him, because he suspects that Ratmir was plotting it from the orders of the Swedes who were approaching Novgorod at that time. Meantime, the Boyars and Mongols are besieging the city as well. Alexander then goes underground where he finds Boyars and kill their leader.

Cast

Anton Pampushnyy — Alexander Nevsky

Svetlana Bakulina — Alexandra Nevskaya

Igor Botvin — Ratmir

Bohdan Stupka — Yaroslav

Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov — Birger Jarl

Andrey Fedortsov — Kornily

Yuliya Galkina — Daria

Valeriy Kukhareshin — Eric XI

Sergey Lysov — Misha

Aleksandr Orlovskiy

Valentin Zakharov — Savva

Semyon Mendelson — Yakov

Denis Shwedov — Sbyslav Yakunovich

Pavel Trubiner — Dmitry

Artur Vaha — head of Boyars

Artyom Leschik — Ulf Fasi

Yuriy Tarasov — jester of Eric XI

Evgeniy Kapitonov — Roman Kulik

Roman Litvinov — Alexey Batkov

Reception

Alexander received negative reviews in the West in general, but the Russian site RusKino said that such films are important for Russia and its people since the Russian youth don't get much education about history from its teachers.