Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Иван Грозный (original)
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. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detested the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.
Starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov, Amvrosi Buchma, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Andrei Abrikosov, Alexander Mgebrov
Watch "Ivan the Terrible, Part I" from streaming services HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Flixfling and several more released in 1945. It's a drama and history movie, and has a rating of 7.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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