📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available:
Russian
📆 Date Released:
1944-11-11
⌚ Running Time:
95 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.3
Beloved Cast
Czar Ivan IV
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Serafima Birman
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail Nazvanov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Amvrosi Buchma
Fyodor Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Pavel Kadochnikov
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Andrei Abrikosov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Alexander Mgebrov
Archdeacon
Maxim Mikhaylov
Piotr Volynetz
Vladimir Balashov
Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
Semyon Timoshenko
The Stranger
Aleksandr Rumnyov
Sigismond, King of Poland
Pavel Massalsky
Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
Valentina Kuznetsova
(uncredited)
Sergei Stolyarov
Sigismond's court lady
Anel Sudakevich
