Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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1944
1h 39m
Russian
Drama, History
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Movie
1944
1h 39m
Russian
Drama, History
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
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Cast
Czar Ivan IV
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Fyodor Basmanov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Archdeacon
Piotr Volynetz
Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Amba...
The Stranger
Sigismond, King of Poland
Smiling Woman in the Church (uncred...
(uncredited)
Directed By: Sergei Eisenstein
Written By: Sergei Eisenstein
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Nikolay Cherkasov is superb in this speculative biopic of the infamous Tsar of all the Russias. Made towards the end of the Second World War, Sergei Eisenstein manages to create a magnificent depiction of just how this often barbaric, but actually rather shrewd and intelligent 16th century monarch i More
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