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Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Nov 11, 1944 · 1h 35m

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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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  • 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
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin Vsevolod Pudovkin Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
  • Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Timoshenko Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
  • Aleksandr Rumnyov Aleksandr Rumnyov The Stranger
  • Pavel Massalsky Pavel Massalsky Sigismond, King of Poland

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