Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
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1958
1h 26m
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Russian
History, Drama
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Not Rated
Movie
1958
1h 26m
Russian
History, Drama
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
Czar Ivan IV
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Nikolay the Fanatic
Fyodor Basmanov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor ...
Pyotr Volynets
Ivan IV as a boy
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
King Sigismund of Poland
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
The Stranger (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Amba...
Directed By: Sergei Eisenstein
Written By: Sergei Eisenstein
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Nikolay Cherkasov picks up well from where we left the first part of Sergei Eisenstein's depiction of the life and times of this infamous Russian Tsar. Having now established a bit of stability for his country, he now tries to hold onto it. He now tries to establish an army to cement his reign whils More
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