Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

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Cast

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  Nikolai Cherkasov
  Czar Ivan IV

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  Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
  Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

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  Serafima Birman
  Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

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  Mikhail Nazvanov
  Prince Andrei Kurbsky

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  Mikhail Zharov
  Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

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  Amvrosii Buchma
  Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

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  Mikhail Kuznetsov
  Fyodor Basmanov

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  Pavel Kadochnikov
  Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

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  Andrei Abrikosov
  Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

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  Alexander Mgebrov
  Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

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  Maxim Mikhaylov
  Archdeacon

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  Vladimir Balashov
  Piotr Volynetz

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  Vsevolod Pudovkin
  Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

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  Semyon Timoshenko
  Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador

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  Aleksandr Rumnyov
  The Stranger

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  Pavel Massalsky
  Sigismond, King of Poland

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  Valentina Kuznetsova
  Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)

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  Sergey Stolyarov
  (uncredited)