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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 Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Vladimir Balashov
Piotr Volynetz
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Sergei Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Andrei Abrikosov
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Anel Sudakevich
Sigismond's court lady
Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Pavel Massalsky
Sigismond, King of Poland
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger
Maxim Mikhaylov
Archdeacon
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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