Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Name: Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Genre: drama, history
Released: 1958-10-10
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Amvrosii Buchma

BN Score 68.9TMDB 7.4

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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.

ReleasedOctober 10, 1958

Runtime1h 22m

RatedNR

Genredrama, history

Directed bySergei Eisenstein

ElsewhereIMDb · TMDB

LanguageRussian

Cast

Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IVSerafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia StaritskayaPavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich StaritskyMikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta SkuratovAmvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei BasmanovVsevolod PudovkinNikolay the FanaticMikhail KuznetsovFyodor BasmanovAlexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen