Ivan the Terrible, Part I
movie
Released November 11, 1944
Overview
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.
Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov
as
Czar Ivan IV
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
as
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima Birman
as
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Nazvanov
as
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mykhailo Zharov
as
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma
as
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
as
Fyodor Basmanov
Pavel Kadochnikov
as
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Andrei Abrikosov
as
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Alexander Mgebrov
as
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim Mikhaylov
as
Archdeacon
Vladimir Balashov
as
Piotr Volynetz
Crew
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Director
Sergei Prokofiev
as
Original Music Composer
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Producer
Andrey Moskvin
as
Director of Photography
Eduard Tisse
as
Director of Photography
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Editor
Yosyp Shpinel
as
Production Design
Sergei Eisenstein
as
Art Direction
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Leonid Naumov
as
Costume Design
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Nadezhda Buzina
as
Costume Design
Vasili Goryunov
as
Makeup Artist