Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
movie
Released October 10, 1958
Overview
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.
Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov
as
Czar Ivan IV
Serafima Birman
as
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov
as
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mykhailo Zharov
as
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii 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
Erik Pyryev
as
Ivan IV as a boy
Mikhail Nazvanov
as
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Crew
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Director
Sergei Prokofiev
as
Original Music Composer
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Producer
Esfir Tobak
as
Editor
Yosyp Shpinel
as
Art Direction
Andrey Moskvin
as
Director of Photography
Eduard Tisse
as
Director of Photography
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Leonid Naumov
as
Costume Design
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M. Safonova
as
Costume Design
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Production Design
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Boris Volsky
as
Sound Designer