Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Original title: Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
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 government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
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Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV
Serafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod PudovkinNikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov
Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky
Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Pavel MassalskyKing Sigismund of Poland
Andrei AbrikosovArchbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir BalashovPyotr VolynetsKeywords
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What is Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot about?
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 government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot has a runtime of 86 minutes.
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