Tsar

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia

Pyotr Mamonov

Ivan The Terrible

Oleg Yankovskiy

Metropolitanate Philipp

Alexandr Domogarov

Aleksei Basmanov

Ivan Okhlobystin

Vassian, the king's jester

Yuriy Kuznetsov

Malyuta Skuratov

Aleksey Makarov

governor Kolychev

Aleksandr Ilin

Fedka Basmanov

Ville Haapasalo

Heinrich Staden

Alexey Frandetti

Kai-Bulat

Ramilya Iskander

Mariya Temryukovna

Anastasiya Dontsova

Masha

Maxim Zamorin

Anvar Khalilulaev

Oleg Surnov

Anna Kashnikova

Gennady Makoev

Oleg Sokolov

Sergey Garmash

narrator