Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)

ALL 10/10/1958 (ru) History, Drama 82 Min
  • Release
    10/10/1958
  • Production
    Mosfilm, TsOKS
  • Rotten tomato
    73.24%
  • Original title
    Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Story

  2. Esfir Tobak

    Editor



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  1. Nikolai Cherkasov

    Czar Ivan IV

  2. Serafima Birman

    Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

  3. Pavel Kadochnikov

    Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

  4. Mikhail Zharov

    Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

  5. Amvrosi Buchma

    Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

  6. Vsevolod Pudovkin

    Nikolay the Fanatic

  7. Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Fyodor Basmanov

  8. Alexander Mgebrov

    Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

  9. Andrei Abrikosov

    Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

  10. Vladimir Balashov

    Pyotr Volynets

  11. Eric Pyryev

    Ivan IV as a boy

  12. Mikhail Nazvanov

    Prince Andrei Kurbsky

  13. Pavel Massalsky

    King Sigismund of Poland

  14. Ada Vojtsik

    Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

  15. Aleksandr Rumnyov

    The Stranger (uncredited)

  16. Sergei Stolyarov

    (uncredited)

  17. Semyon Timoshenko

    Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 17 , Crews : 15

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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) 82 Min

ALL 10/10/1958 (ru)
History, Drama
  • Release 10/10/1958
  • Production
    Mosfilm, TsOKS
  • Original title Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Sergei Eisenstein

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Esfir Tobak

    Editor

  4. Sergei Eisenstein

    Producer