Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Rating
- 85/100
- Hit
- yes
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.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, rates 85/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Nikolai Cherkasov
- Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
- Serafima Birman
- Mikhail Nazvanov
- Mikhail Zharov
- Amvrosii Buchma
- Mikhail Kuznetsov
- Pavel Kadochnikov
- Andrei Abrikosov
- Alexander Mgebrov
Crew
- Andrey Moskvin — Director of Photography
- Eduard Tisse — Director of Photography
- Sergei Eisenstein — Editor
- Sergei Prokofiev — Original Music Composer
- Sergei Eisenstein — Writer
More from Sergei Eisenstein
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) — 86/100 · hit
- Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) — 85/100 · hit
- Strike (1925) — 85/100 · hit
- October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) — 80/100 · hit
- Alexander Nevsky (1938) — 80/100 · hit
- ¡Qué Viva México! (1979) — 71/100
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