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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944/11/11 (US) | 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.

1h 35m

7.3

  • Sergei Eisenstein

    Director

Lead Cast

  • Nikolai Cherkasov

    Nikolai Cherkasov

    Czar Ivan IV

  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

    Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

    Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

  • Serafima Birman

    Serafima Birman

    Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

  • Mikhail Nazvanov

    Mikhail Nazvanov

    Prince Andrei Kurbsky

  • Mikhail Zharov

    Mikhail Zharov

    Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

  • Amvrosi Buchma

    Amvrosi Buchma

    Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

  • Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Fyodor Basmanov

Budget

$ 0

Revenue

$ 0

Status

Released

Production Company

  • Mosfilm
  • TsOKS

Crews

  • Sergei Eisenstein

    Writer

  • Sergei Prokofiev

    Original Music Composer

  • Andrey Moskvin

    Director of Photography

  • Yosyp Shpinel

    Production Design

  • Vladimir Bogdankevich

    Sound Designer

  • Nadezhda Buzina

    Costume Design

  • Vasili Goryunov

    Makeup Artist