Backdrop

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

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.

1944 |1h 40m |  Drama, History

Videos

Cast

cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

cast

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

cast

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

cast

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

cast

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

cast

Amvrosi Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

cast

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

cast

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

cast

Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

cast

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

cast

Maxim Mikhaylov

Archdeacon

cast

Vladimir Balashov

Piotr Volynetz

cast

Aleksandr Rumnyov

The Stranger

cast

Pavel Massalsky

Sigismond, King of Poland

cast

Sergei Stolyarov

(uncredited)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

-

Revenue

-