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A two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Part 1 was released in 1944 but Part 2 was not released until 1958 due to political censorship. The films were originally planned as part of a trilogy, but Eisenstein died before filming of the third part could be finished.
- Number of Movies: 2
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Featured Cast
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Czar Ivan IV
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Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
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Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
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Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
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Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
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Prince Andrei Kurbsky
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Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
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Nikolay the Fanatic, Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
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Fyodor Basmanov
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Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev), Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
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Pyotr Volynets, Piotr Volynetz
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Archdeacon
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Ivan IV as a boy
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Writing, Directing
March 8, 1947
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.
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.