RUSSIA · 1944

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Poetic Cinema tatars wedding medieval treason church
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Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques an

Year1944
CountryRussia
DirectorSergei Eisenstein
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