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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
Not Rated
1944
1h 35m
Drama
,
History
,
and more
7.7
100%
91%
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During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
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Cast of Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Andrei Abrikosov
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Maxim Mikhaylov
Archdeacon
Vladimir Balashov
Piotr Volynetz
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
Semyon Timoshenko
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger
Pavel Massalsky
Sigismond, King of Poland
Valentina Kuznetsova
Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
Sergei Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Anel Sudakevich
Sigismond's court lady
Lidiya Naumova
Sergei Eisenstein
Director / Writer / Producer
Ivan the Terrible, Part I Ratings & Reviews
Washington Star
Harry MacArthur
[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.
TIME Magazine
James Agee
It is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Eisenstein's 'Ivan' is a magnificence of parts, four-fifths of it a visual wonder beyond the man himself.
Denton Record-Chronicle
Boo Allen
Brilliant, innovative film still holds up today.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
You won't learn much history but you will be able to tell people you've seen it.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The historical melodramatic biopic is wonderful to behold visually and for its camp.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Hilarious six by the master comedian.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Rich cornucopia of Fieldsiana.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A brilliant cinematic work that was a thinly veiled portrait of not only Stalinism at its worst, but also the failed Bolshevik Revolution.
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