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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944, Nov 11
1h 35m
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.
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
Written by
Sergei Eisenstein
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Andrei Abrikosov
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Amvrosii Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Vladimir Balashov
Piotr Volynetz
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Pavel Massalsky
Sigismond, King of Poland
Sergey Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Vladimir Uralskiy
Archbishop
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim Mikhaylov
Archdeacon
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger
Boris Feodosyev
Boyar
Anel Sudakevich
Sigismond's court lady
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