Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Part of Ivan The Terrible Collection

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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.

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Creators

Sergei Eisenstein

director

Sergei Eisenstein

writer

Cast

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Nikolai Cherkasov actor

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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya actor

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Serafima Birman actor

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Mikhail Nazvanov actor Михаил Жаров actor

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Amvrosii Buchma actor Михаил Кузнецов actor Павел Кадочников actor

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Andrei Abrikosov actor

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Alexander Mgebrov actor

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Maxim Mikhaylov actor

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Vladimir Balashov actor

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Vsevolod Pudovkin actor

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Semyon Timoshenko actor

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Aleksandr Rumnyov actor

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Pavel Massalsky actor

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Valentina Kuznetsova actor

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Sergey Stolyarov actor Anel Sudakevich actor

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Lidiya Naumova actor