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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Иван Грозный

1944·95'

Sergei Eisenstein

DramaHistory

★ 7.3

Letterboxd TMDB #9797

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

Nikolai Cherkasov Nikolai Cherkasov Czar Ivan IV
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya Lyudmila Tselikovskaya Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima Birman Serafima Birman Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Nazvanov Mikhail Nazvanov Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail Zharov Mikhail Zharov Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma Amvrosii Buchma Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov Mikhail Kuznetsov Fyodor Basmanov
Pavel Kadochnikov Pavel Kadochnikov Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Andrei Abrikosov Andrei Abrikosov Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Alexander Mgebrov Alexander Mgebrov Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim Mikhaylov Maxim Mikhaylov Archdeacon
Vladimir Balashov Vladimir Balashov Piotr Volynetz

Screenings in Brussels

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