Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944
1h 35m
7.3

7.3/10

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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.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mosfilm TsOKS
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Keywords

coronation exile treason tatars wedding church intrigue medieval

Quick Facts

Original Title Иван Грозный
Release Date November 11, 1944
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0037824

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

Amvrosii Buchma
Amvrosii Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov
Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov
Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Andrei Abrikosov
Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

Alexander Mgebrov
Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Maxim Mikhaylov
Maxim Mikhaylov

Archdeacon

Vladimir Balashov
Vladimir Balashov

Piotr Volynetz

Key Crew

Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Producer