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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944-11-11 · 95 min · ★ 7.3

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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Directors
Sergei Eisenstein
Production companies
Mosfilm, TsOKS
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Nikolai CherkasovNikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV
Lyudmila TselikovskayaLyudmila TselikovskayaCzarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima BirmanSerafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail NazvanovMikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail ZharovMikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii BuchmaAmvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail KuznetsovMikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov
Pavel KadochnikovPavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Andrei AbrikosovAndrei AbrikosovBoyar Fyodor Kolychev
Alexander MgebrovAlexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim MikhaylovMaxim MikhaylovArchdeacon
Vladimir BalashovVladimir BalashovPiotr Volynetz
Vsevolod PudovkinVsevolod PudovkinNikola, Simpleton Beggar
Semyon TimoshenkoSemyon TimoshenkoKaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
Aleksandr RumnyovAleksandr RumnyovThe Stranger
Pavel MassalskyPavel MassalskySigismond, King of Poland
Valentina KuznetsovaSmiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
Sergey StolyarovSergey Stolyarov(uncredited)
Anel SudakevichAnel SudakevichSigismond's court lady
Lidiya Naumova

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