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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Sergei Eisenstein |
| Stars: |
Nikolai Cherkassov |
| Actors: |
Ludmila Tselikovskaya |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Biography · Period Piece · Royalty · Classic · Russian |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
009432001302 |
| Release Date: |
1943 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 36min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Russian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 39min Release Company: Image Entertainment, Inc. (September 02, 1998) UPC: 014381457728 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 36min UPC: 009432001302 |
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| Details: |
Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to begin part three. A spectacle of impressively baroque splendor, it remains one of the great anomalies of film history. Starring Nikolai Cherkassov as the eponymous ruler, the film opens with the 16-year-old's opulent coronation in 1546. He breaks with the custom of marriage to a foreign princess by marrying a Russian girl, Anastasia Romanovna (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya), thereby offending the nobility. In an effort to expand his territory eastward, he leads an army of 100,000 to seize Kazan, succeeding only after a long and bitter campaign. After contracting a seemingly fatal illness, Ivan summons the boyars, led by his aunt Euphrosinia (Serafima Birman), but they refuse his demand to swear allegiance to his one-year-old son, greatly angering the czar. When Ivan miraculously ... |
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