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Ivan the Terrible, Part One

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An epic account of the coronation, abdication and subsequent recall by the people of the 16th-century Russian ruler (Nikolai Cherkasov).
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James Agee TIME Magazine 03/02/2018
It is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence. Go to Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 10/22/2003
This is one of the most distinctive great films in the history of cinema -- freakishly mannerist, yet so vivid in its obsessions and expressionist angularity that it virtually invents its own genre. Go to Full Review Harry MacArthur Washington Star 06/08/2020
[Eisenstein] can set a mood with a shadow. And he stages every scene that the cameras catch with a painstaking care for the smallest detail of composition. Go to Full Review Donald J. Levit ReelTalk Movie Reviews 09/03/2011
Eisenstein's 'Ivan' is a magnificence of parts, four-fifths of it a visual wonder beyond the man himself. Go to Full Review Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) 05/04/2009
Most revealing as an unintended allegory for Russian rulers' continuing will, in their aspiration for absolutism, to lead a powerful and menacing empire, regardless of those people far below who get crushed by an iron fist. Go to Full Review Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) 02/18/2007
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Cast & Crew

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Sergei M. Eisenstein

Director

Nikolay Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafina Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

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Synopsis An epic account of the coronation, abdication and subsequent recall by the people of the 16th-century Russian ruler (Nikolai Cherkasov).
Director
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Producer
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Screenwriter
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Distributor
Reel Media International [us], Criterion Collection, Grapevine Video
Production Co
Mosfilm, Tsentralnuyu Obedinyonnuyu Kinostudiyu (TsOKS)
Genre
History, Drama
Original Language
Russian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 16, 1945, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 26, 2019
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm, Flat (1.37:1)
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