Line #18 Trivia/AlexanderNevsky


1	* BeamMeUpScotty: A variation of the phrase "all who draw the sword will die by the sword", tends to be attributed to Alexander since it appears in the movie. In reality, there is no mention of him ever saying it in public, and the phrase is actually attributed to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.
2	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
3	** Brazil: ''Iron Knights''
4	** Hungary: ''Knight of Icefields''
5	** Sweden: ''Storm Over Russia''
6	* DawsonCasting: Then-35 year old Creator/NikolayCherkasov, a superstar of Stalin-era Soviet cinema, was cast as the title character -- who was 22 at the time of the battle. Due to PopCulturalOsmosis, most Russian people think that the prince was in his 30's when he fought the battle.
7	* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Government'' executive, that is. The production of the film was an important affair of the state, rigorously monitored by Soviet authorities. The film's ultimate censor was UsefulNotes/JosefStalin himself.
8	* FakeNationality: All German characters, for obvious reasons, are played by Russian actors. The actor playing the Mongol envoy is Chinese, but Mongol extras are played by actual Mongols (foreign students of Soviet universities or members of the Soviet Mongol minority; Mongolia's first modern government independent of China was backed by the Soviet Union, also a communist regime which actually outlived the Soviets.)
9	* PropRecycling: The distinctive helmets worn by the Knights reappear even after one wearer has been killed.
10	* ReferencedBy: The film has been cited in a number of subsequent fictional works.
11	** The beginning of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Thulsa Doom and his warriors attack in the dead of winter, torch the Cimmerian village, slaughter the inhabitants -- all while [[https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Thulsa_Doom?file=Thulsa_Doom_%2528Armored%2529.jpg wearing some strangely familiar helmets]]. Also, the "It's not the sword, but the hand that wields it" quote.
12	** Also, ''Film/KingArthur2004'' features a battle on the ice (much smaller in scale).
13	** The ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' film trilogy seems to be full of them, particularly in the second movie.
14	** In the novel ''Literature/RedStormRising'', this film is shown on Russian TV shortly before the main FalseFlagOperation (detonating a bomb at the Kremlin and blaming UsefulNotes/WestGermany).
15	** ''Anime/FirstSquad'' has the {{Ghostapo}} raising the spirits of some Teutonic knights to fight the Russians on a frozen lake.
16	** Not about the battle, but [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] looks very suspiciously like a character known as the Black-Hooded Monk who keeps appearing in the movie. And, indeed, one of the battles in the trilogy were reportedly inspired by this film, making this other borrowing quite plausible.
17	** ''Film/BillionDollarBrain'' (1967): General Midwinter's private army wear white snow-camouflage uniforms, and their "MW" symbols on their vehicles and flags resemble the symbols worn by the Teutonic Knights; they also all die in the same way, drowning in the frozen Baltic, admittedly after a Soviet Airforce bomber drops a massive icebreaking "Blockbuster" bomb on the ice, shattering it and dooming the entire army to a horrible death.
18	** Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/{{Napoleon\|2023}}'' has a scene at the battle of Austerlitz that plays up much like the Lake Peipus battle, with enemy troops being lured onto a frozen lake and haplessly sinking once the ice is shattered.

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