Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Movie·1958·1h 22m

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Country

Soviet Union

Language

Russian

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The Story

Original title: Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор

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.

Producer

Sergei Eisenstein

Cinematography

Eduard Tisse

Music

Sergei Prokofiev

Editor

Esfir Tobak

Themes

historicalmedieval

Production House

Mosfilm
TsOKS

Audience Score

73%

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Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Serafima Birman

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Pavel Kadochnikov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosii Buchma

Amvrosii Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Nikolay the Fanatic

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Mgebrov

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Andrei Abrikosov

Andrei Abrikosov

Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

Vladimir Balashov

Vladimir Balashov

Pyotr Volynets

Erik Pyryev

Erik Pyryev

Ivan IV as a boy

Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Pavel Massalsky

Pavel Massalsky

King Sigismund of Poland

Ada Vojtsik

Ada Vojtsik

Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

Aleksandr Rumnyov

Aleksandr Rumnyov

The Stranger (uncredited)

Sergey Stolyarov

Sergey Stolyarov

(uncredited)

Semyon Timoshenko

Semyon Timoshenko

Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)

Evgenia Bagorskaya

Evgenia Bagorskaya

Lady from Sigismund's court

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Crew

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Writer, Director, Producer

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Original Music Composer

Esfir Tobak

Esfir Tobak

Editor

Eduard Tisse

Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography

Andrey Moskvin

Andrey Moskvin

Director of Photography

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