Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
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.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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Nikolai Cherkasov as Czar Ivan IV |
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Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya |
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Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky |
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Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov |
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Amvrosii Buchma as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikolay the Fanatic |
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Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov |
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Alexander Mgebrov as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen |
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Andrei Abrikosov as Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev) |
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Vladimir Balashov as Pyotr Volynets |
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Erik Pyryev as Ivan IV as a boy |
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Mikhail Nazvanov as Prince Andrei Kurbsky |
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Pavel Massalsky as King Sigismund of Poland |
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Ada Vojtsik as Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother |
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Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger (uncredited) |
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Sergey Stolyarov as (uncredited) |
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Semyon Timoshenko as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited) |
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Evgenia Bagorskaya as Lady from Sigismund's court |
| Writing | Sergei Eisenstein | Writer |
| Directing | Sergei Eisenstein | Director |
| Sound | Sergei Prokofiev | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Sergei Eisenstein | Producer |
| Camera | Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Esfir Tobak | Editor |
| Art | Sergei Eisenstein | Production Design |
| Art | Yosyp Shpinel | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Leonid Naumov | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | M. Safonova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vasili Goryunov | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Vladimir Bogdankevich | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Fabian Mogilevskiy | Camera Technician |
