Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)


  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1944-11-11
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 198 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 35min
  • Language: Pусский
  • Production Company: Mosfilm
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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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.

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  • Nikolai Cherkasov

    as Czar Ivan IV
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

    as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
  • Serafima Birman

    as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
  • Mikhail Nazvanov

    as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
  • Mikhail Zharov

    as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
  • Amvrosi Buchma

    as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov

    as Fyodor Basmanov
  • Pavel Kadochnikov

    as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
  • Andrei Abrikosov

    as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
  • Alexander Mgebrov

    as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
  • Maxim Mikhaylov

    as Archdeacon
  • Vladimir Balashov

    as Piotr Volynetz
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin

    as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
  • Semyon Timoshenko

    as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
  • Aleksandr Rumnyov

    as The Stranger
  • Pavel Massalsky

    as Sigismond, King of Poland
  • Valentina Kuznetsova

    as Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
  • Sergei Stolyarov

    as (uncredited)
Writing Sergei Eisenstein Writer
Directing Sergei Eisenstein Director
Sound Sergei Prokofiev Original Music Composer
Production Sergei Eisenstein Producer
Camera Andrey Moskvin Director of Photography
Camera Eduard Tisse Director of Photography
Editing Sergei Eisenstein Editor
Art Yosyp Shpinel Production Design
Art Sergei Eisenstein Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Leonid Naumov Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Nadezhda Buzina Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Vasili Goryunov Makeup Artist
Sound Vladimir Bogdankevich Sound Designer
Sound Boris Volsky Sound Designer