📜 Overview:
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
🌏 Languages Available:
Russian
📆 Date Released:
1958-10-10
⌚ Running Time:
87 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.3
Beloved Cast
Czar Ivan IV
Nikolai Cherkasov
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Serafima Birman
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Pavel Kadochnikov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Amvrosi Buchma
Nikolay the Fanatic
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Fyodor Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Alexander Mgebrov
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Andrei Abrikosov
Pyotr Volynets
Vladimir Balashov
Ivan IV as a boy
Eric Pyryev
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail Nazvanov
King Sigismund of Poland
Pavel Massalsky
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
Ada Vojtsik
The Stranger (uncredited)
Aleksandr Rumnyov
(uncredited)
Sergei Stolyarov
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)
Semyon Timoshenko
