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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

IMDB:

7.3
Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Released

11/11/1944

Duration

1h 35m

Genre

Drama, History

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman

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.

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Nikolai Cherkasov

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Serafima Birman

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Mikhail Zharov

Amvrosii Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Amvrosii Buchma

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Pavel Kadochnikov

Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

Andrei Abrikosov

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Alexander Mgebrov

Maxim Mikhaylov

Archdeacon

Maxim Mikhaylov

Vladimir Balashov

Piotr Volynetz

Vladimir Balashov

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