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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I

Иван Грозный

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Union, 1944
Drama

Synopsis

The first part of the only two films Eisenstein made from his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator.

Synopsis

The first part of the only two films Eisenstein made from his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator.