Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) IMDB 7.8. He is now sure that Evfrosinia poisoned his wife, the Tsarina, and he has Philip seized. Serafima Birman. Best Horror Movies. During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei M. Eisenstein. Best Film. Nikolay Cherkasov. Ivan the terrible (program note), 1965. Part I begins with Ivan's coronation as Tsar of all the Russians, amid grumbling from the boyars and silent jealousy from his cousin, Vladimir of Staritsa and especially from Vladimir’s mother and Ivan’s aunt, the evil-looking Evfrosinia Staritskaia. (From here, the film is in colour.) Showing as part of. Ivan deftly plays to the people to consolidate his power. Its director, Sergei Eisenstein. He is sent, as a reward, to the western border of the kingdom to defend against the Livonians and Poles. The play with shadows and lighting is exquisite.Surely it has influenced other period films(eg Elizabeth(1998)) Unfortunately, it continually serves as a propaganda tool. Mais sa tante, qui voudrait voir son fils Vladimir sur le trône, avec la complicité des boyards, fait empoisonner la tsarine. Alexei Basmanov (Amvrosy Buchma) – The elder Basmanov is a commoner, a self-described hater of the boyars and a great opportunist. The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. Chief among them are his aunt, who wants to advance the fortunes of her son, a simpleton, and Kurbsky, a warrior prince who wants both power and the hand of Anastasia. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1943) Director: Sergei Eisenstein. Ivan the Terrible, Part I Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. T he final great work from the legendary Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein is both a compelling portrait of one of the most important figures in Russian history and an insightful reflection of the era in which the film was made. The two parts of Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" are epic in scope, awesome in visuals, and nonsensical in story. In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. Locarno International Film Festival. HD. Sergei Eisenstein, 1944. 1946. During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. The Hangover Part III. At the banquet, Ivan gets Vladimir drunk while the Oprichniki sing and dance around them; a tipsy Vladimir mentions that there is a plot to kill Ivan, and that he, Vladimir, is to replace him as Tsar. It was Eisenstein’s last film, commissioned by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified with Ivan. Valery Polyansky - Ivan Grozniy (Ivan the Terrible), Op. 1982. She is adamantly traditionalist and hates the Tsarina, relentlessly pushing the other boyars to oppose Ivan in any way they can, and is instrumental in the assassination plot against him. Audience Reviews for Ivan the Terrible, Part One. He was said to have been in a state of nervous exhaustion when the filming of the second part of Ivan the Terrible was completed.[11]. Andrey Moskvin. Eisenstein wrote about Ivan The Terrible’s tone, saying that he wished chiefly to convey a sense of majesty; the actors spoke in measured tones, frequently accompanied by Prokofiev’s superb, solemn music, Ivan the Terrible, op. Vladimir of Staritsa (Pavel Kadochnikov) – Vladimir, Efrosinia's adult son with the mind of a child, is the main challenger to Ivan as tsar. 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