Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Age : 63 | Popularity : 6%

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Age : 85 | Popularity : 6%

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Age : 50 | Popularity : 3%

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Amvrosi Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Age : 68 | Popularity : 8%

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Age : 72 | Popularity : 9%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Sergei Eisenstein
Editing	Editor	Sergei Eisenstein
Production	Producer	Sergei Eisenstein
Art	Art Direction	Sergei Eisenstein
	Production Design	Iosif Shpinel
Writing	Writer	Sergei Eisenstein
Camera	Director of Photography	Eduard Tisse Andrey Moskvin
Sound	Original Music Composer	Sergei Prokofiev
	Sound Designer	Vladimir Bogdankevich Boris Volsky
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Leonid Naumov Nadezhda Buzina
	Makeup Artist	Vasili Goryunov
Department	Role	Name

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