In his early 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 is the first part of an unfinished trilogy about Tsar Ivan IV.
- Directors
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Cast
- Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov, Amvrosii Buchma, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Andrei Abrikosov, Alexander Mgebrov, Maxim Mikhaylov, Vladimir Balashov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Semyon Timoshenko, Aleksandr Rumnyov, Pavel Massalsky, Valentina Kuznetsova, Sergey Stolyarov, Anel Sudakevich, Lidiya Naumova
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Genre
- Drama, History
- Release date
- 1944-11-11
- Studios
- Mosfilm, TsOKS
Ivan the Terrible, Part I Plot and Cast
Sergei Eisenstein's final film is the first part of a planned three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV. Set early in his reign, it shows Ivan confronting betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he strives to unite the Russian people. The trilogy was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's forbidden experimental techniques and cost overruns; the second part was released a decade after his death, and the third was halted in early filming.
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