Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
1946, Film, 88 min, Biography, Drama, History, Russian, 0, MoviePedia score 71
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.
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
- Nikolay 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
- Aleksandr Mgebrov as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
- Andrei Abrikosov as Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
- Vladimir Balashov as Pyotr Volynets
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