Ivan the Terrible, Part I | Иван Грозный
Ivan the Terrible, Part IИван Грозный
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.
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Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Serafima Birman
Mikhail Nazvanov
Mikhail Zharov
Amvrosi Buchma
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Pavel Kadochnikov
Andrei Abrikosov
Alexander Mgebrov
Maxim Mikhaylov
Vladimir Balashov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Semyon Timoshenko
Aleksandr Rumnyov
Pavel Massalsky
Valentina Kuznetsova
Sergei Stolyarov
Crew
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Prokofiev
Nadezhda Buzina
Vasili Goryunov
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Leonid Naumov
Eduard Tisse
Yosyp Shpinel