Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Original title: Иван Грозный
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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Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV
Lyudmila TselikovskayaCzarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Mikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov
Amvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Pavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Andrei AbrikosovBoyar Fyodor Kolychev
Vsevolod PudovkinNikola, Simpleton Beggar
Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim MikhaylovArchdeaconKeywords
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What is Ivan the Terrible, Part I about?
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.
How long is Ivan the Terrible, Part I?
Ivan the Terrible, Part I has a runtime of 99 minutes.
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