Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

October. 10,1958      
Rating:
7.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Nikolai Cherkasov as  Czar Ivan IV
Serafima Birman as  Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov as  Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Zharov as  Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosi Buchma as  Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin as  Nikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail Kuznetsov as  Fyodor Basmanov
Alexander Mgebrov as  Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Andrei Abrikosov as  Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir Balashov as  Pyotr Volynets

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