The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
movie

Released April 01, 1992
Overview
Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his complicated relationship with the state under the rule of tsar Ivan IV ("the Terrible"). Released for theaters as a 2-part 147 minute movie and for TV as a 5-part 5-hour miniseries.
Cast

Fyodor Sukhov
as
Ivan Fyodorov

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
as
Ivan the Terrible

Valeri Poroshin
as
Metropolitan Makariy

Valeriy Smetskoy
as
Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Trofimov
as
Father Silvester

Nikita Dzhigurda
as
Andrei Kurbsky
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Oleg Demidov
as
Mikhailo Kashin

Rim Ayupov
as
Maksim Grek

Vladimir Ivashov
as
Aleksei Adashev

Irina Cherichenko
as
Taisia