The second part of the film is dedicated to the "oprichnina". By the time Ivan Vasilyevich returned from Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda, a boyar conspiracy had matured with the participation of the Polish Tsar Sigismund. The closest friend, Prince Kurbsky, betrayed Ivan the Terrible and defected to the Poles. Scenes of bloody reprisals against the boyars, with the recalcitrant Metropolitan Philip Kolychev, are interspersed with Grozny's childhood memories. An iron ring of guardsmen was created around the Tsar, with Malyuta Skuratov at the head...
IMDb rating: 7,8
Year of production: 1945
Director: Eisenstein Sergei
Screenwriter: Sergei Eisenstein
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Cinematographers: Tisse Eduard, Moskvin Andrey
Production Designer: Spinel Joseph
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Andrei Abrikosov, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maxim Mikhailov, Ambrose Buchma, Alexander Mgebrov, Vladimir Balashov, Pavel Massalsky, Eric Pyriev
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