Ivan the Terrible, Part I(1944)

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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.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and released in 1944. It is a drama, history film.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I has a runtime of 1 hours and 35 minutes (95 minutes total).

The cast of Ivan the Terrible, Part I includes 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 and more.