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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958, Oct 10
1h 22m
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.
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
Written by
Sergei Eisenstein
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Andrei Abrikosov
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Ada Vojtsik
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Vladimir Balashov
Pyotr Volynets
Eric Pyryev
Ivan IV as a boy
Sergei Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger (uncredited)
Pavel Massalsky
King Sigismund of Poland
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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