Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Иван Грозный
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👍 90%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 100%
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Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov as Czar Ivan IV
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Nazvanov as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov
Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Is Ivan the Terrible, Part I good?
Yes. 90% audience score, estimated from 239 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 100%.
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Overview
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 and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether. Wikipedia ↗
