Film

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944 · 1h 35m · Drama · History

IMDb

7.7

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

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.

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosii Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Maxim Mikhaylov

Archdeacon

Vladimir Balashov

Piotr Volynetz

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

Semyon Timoshenko

Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador

Aleksandr Rumnyov

The Stranger

Pavel Massalsky

Sigismond, King of Poland

• Sergei EisensteinWriter · Director · Editor · Producer
• Andrey MoskvinDirector of Photography
• Eduard TisseDirector of Photography
• Sergei ProkofievOriginal Music Composer

Ivan The Terrible - Trailer (1945)

Release date

November 11, 1944

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama, History

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