Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Name: Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Genre: drama, history
Released: 1944-11-11
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov

BN Score 68.9TMDB 7.3

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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.

ReleasedNovember 11, 1944

Runtime1h 35m

RatedNR

Genredrama, history

Directed bySergei Eisenstein

ElsewhereIMDb · TMDB

LanguageRussian

Cast

Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IVLyudmila TselikovskayaCzarina Anastasia RomanovnaSerafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia StaritskayaMikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei KurbskyMikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta SkuratovAmvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei BasmanovMikhail KuznetsovFyodor BasmanovPavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky