Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

11/11/1944 (SU) • 1h 35m

Drama, History

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.

Top Billed Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosi Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev


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Part of the Ivan The Terrible Collection

Includes Ivan the Terrible, Part I, Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

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Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

coronation

exile

treason

tatars

wedding

church

intrigue

medieval

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