Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV
Serafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod PudovkinNikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov
Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Andrei AbrikosovArchbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir BalashovPyotr Volynets
Erik PyryevIvan IV as a boy
Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei KurbskyExplore the crew
- Writer
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Director
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Original Music Composer
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Producer
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Director of Photography
- Andrey Moskvin
- Director of Photography
- Eduard Tisse
- Editor
- Esfir Tobak