Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1080p 99 min 1944 Published on, 1 year ago

7.3

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.

Country

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Genre

Drama History

Released

11 Nov, 1944

Main Cast

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya , Mikhail Nazvanov , Amvrosi Buchma , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Pavel Kadochnikov

Supporting Cast

Alexander Mgebrov , Maxim Mikhaylov , Vladimir Balashov , Aleksandr Rumnyov , Pavel Massalsky

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