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Alex Morgan
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5 min ago
★★★★★4/5

Just finished watching this. Visuals were stunning but the pacing felt a bit off in the second half. Still worth a watch!

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Daniel Cooper
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2 days ago
★★★★★2/5

I don't get the hype. The plot was predictable and the characters felt flat. It seems like style over substance to me. Maybe I missed something, but I was bored throughout.

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Priya Sharma
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15 days ago
★★★★★5/5

An absolute masterpiece. The director managed to weave complex themes into a compelling narrative without it feeling forced. The cinematography is some of the best I've seen in years. Truly a cinematic experience that stays with you.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
7.3
1h 35m

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

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.

Overview

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) is rated ⭐ 7.26/10.
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.

Top Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafima Birman

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosii Buchma

Amvrosii Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Andrei Abrikosov

Andrei Abrikosov

Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

Alexander Mgebrov

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

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