Ivan the Terrible, Part I
(1944)

Released: 1944-11-11

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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

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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

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Serafima Birman

as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

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Mikhail Nazvanov

as Prince Andrei Kurbsky

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Mikhail Zharov

as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

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Amvrosi Buchma

as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

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Mikhail Kuznetsov

as Fyodor Basmanov

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Pavel Kadochnikov

as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

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Andrei Abrikosov

as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

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Alexander Mgebrov

as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

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Maxim Mikhaylov

as Archdeacon

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Vladimir Balashov

as Piotr Volynetz

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Vsevolod Pudovkin

as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

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Semyon Timoshenko

as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador

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Aleksandr Rumnyov

as The Stranger

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Pavel Massalsky

as Sigismond, King of Poland

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Valentina Kuznetsova

as Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)

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Sergei Stolyarov

as (uncredited)

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Sergei Prokofiev

Original Music Composer

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Nadezhda Buzina

Costume Design

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Boris Volsky

Sound Designer

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Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography

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Leonid Naumov

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Andrey Moskvin

Director of Photography

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Yosyp Shpinel

Production Design

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