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This is one of the most distinctive great films in the history of cinema -- freakishly mannerist, yet so vivid in its obsessions and expressionist angularity that it virtually invents its own genre.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · 1h 35m · Not Rated
Drama, History
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sergei Eisenstein Director
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Czar Ivan IV
- Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
- Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
- Mikhail Nazvanov as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
- Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
- Amvrosii Buchma as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
- Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov
- Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
- Andrei Abrikosov as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
- Alexander Mgebrov as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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