Directed by:
Sergei M. EisensteinComposer:
Sergei ProkofievCast:
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov, Andrei Abrikosov, Maxim Michajlov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov (more)Plots(1)
Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to begin part three. A spectacle of impressively baroque splendor, it remains one of the great anomalies of film history. Starring Nikolai Cherkassov as the eponymous ruler, the film opens with the 16-year-old's opulent coronation in 1546. He breaks with the custom of marriage to a foreign princess by marrying a Russian girl, Anastasia Romanovna (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya), thereby offending the nobility. In an effort to expand his territory eastward, he leads an army of 100,000 to seize Kazan, succeeding only after a long and bitter campaign. After contracting a seemingly fatal illness, Ivan summons the boyars, led by his aunt Euphrosinia (Serafima Birman), but they refuse his demand to swear allegiance to his one-year-old son, greatly angering the czar. When Ivan miraculously returns to health, he begins to consolidate power in opposition to the boyars. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Pyotr pervyy I (1937)
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Story of a Real Man (1948)
Mikhail Nazvanov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Hamlet (1964)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Mikhail Zharov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Pyotr pervyy I (1937)
Andrei Abrikosov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
The Karamazov Brothers (1969)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Maxim Michajlov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Marya Iskusnitsa (1959)
Pavel Kadochnikov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Siberiade (1979)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Всеволод Пудовкин
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Mother (1926)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Pavel Massalsky
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Alye parusa (1961)
Semyon Timoshenko
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Oleg Zhakov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
The Overcoat (1926)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Leonid Kosmatov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Vladimir Balashov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Oni shli na Vostok (1965)
Irina Volodko
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Константин Сорокин
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Novye priklyucheniya neulovimykh (1968)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Cossacks of the Kuban (1949)
Yuri Pomerantsev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge (1970)