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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Original title: Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор

  • Movie
  • 1958
  • NR
  • 1h 22m

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

7.4

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7.4 out of 10 from 186 votes

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Overview

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

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Cast and crew

  • Nikolai Cherkasov

    Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV

  • Serafima Birman

    Serafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

  • Pavel Kadochnikov

    Pavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

  • Mikhail Zharov

    Mikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

  • Amvrosii Buchma

    Amvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

  • Vsevolod Pudovkin

    Vsevolod PudovkinNikolay the Fanatic

  • Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Mikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov

  • Alexander Mgebrov

    Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen

  • Andrei Abrikosov

    Andrei AbrikosovArchbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

  • Vladimir Balashov

    Vladimir BalashovPyotr Volynets

  • Erik Pyryev

    Erik PyryevIvan IV as a boy

  • Mikhail Nazvanov

    Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky

  • Pavel Massalsky

    Pavel MassalskyKing Sigismund of Poland

  • Ada Vojtsik

    Ada VojtsikElena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

  • Aleksandr Rumnyov

    Aleksandr RumnyovThe Stranger (uncredited)

  • Sergey Stolyarov

    Sergey Stolyarov(uncredited)

  • Semyon Timoshenko

    Semyon TimoshenkoKaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)

  • Evgenia Bagorskaya

    Evgenia BagorskayaLady from Sigismund's court

Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Music
Sergei Prokofiev
Cinematography
Andrey Moskvin and Eduard Tisse