Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot — Official Trailer

Synopsis

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet governmen…

Cast & Crew

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

• Nikolai Cherkasov
  as Czar Ivan IV
• Serafima Birman
  as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
• Pavel Kadochnikov
  as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
• Mikhail Zharov
  as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
• Amvrosii Buchma
  as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
• Vsevolod Pudovkin
  as Nikolay the Fanatic

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