Movie

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958★ 7.4

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.

Playing on VidCore. Progress auto-saves.

Cast

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

Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Andrei AbrikosovArchbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

Vladimir BalashovPyotr Volynets

Erik PyryevIvan IV as a boy

Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky

Because you watched Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

A Call to Spy

Mr. Turner

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

Mary

Giant

Worth

Robin Hood

Richard Jewell

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Hill

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul

Resurrecting the Champ

Resurrecting the Champ

Infiltration

Rob Roy

Julia

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Munich - The Edge of War

Munich - The Edge of War