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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Lists: Drama, Historical, Sight And Sound Critics Top 250

Brief Synopsis: "Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Czar Ivan Grozny, which was never completed due again to producer 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. In this first part, 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."

Overall Ranking: - (Rank from 1944: # 0)


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  • Nikolai Cherkasov (Czar Ivan IV)
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya (Czarina Anastasia Romanovna)
  • Serafima Birman (Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya)
  • Mikhail Nazvanov (Prince Andrei Kurbsky)
  • Mikhail Zharov (Czars Guard Malyuta Skuratov)
  • Amvrosi Buchma (Czars Guard Aleksei Basmanov)
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov (Fyodor Basmanov)
  • Pavel Kadochnikov (Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky)
  • Andrei Abrikosov (Boyar Fyodor Kolychev)
  • Alexander Mgebrov (Novgorods Archbishop Pimen)
  • Maxim Mikhaylov (Archdeacon)
  • Vladimir Balashov (Piotr Volynetz)
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin (Nikola, Simpleton Beggar)
  • Semyon Timoshenko (Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador)
  • Aleksandr Rumnyov (The Stranger)
  • Pavel Massalsky (Sigismond, King of Poland)
  • Valentina Kuznetsova (Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited))
  • Sergei Stolyarov ((uncredited))