Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
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👍 87%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
Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov
Alexander Mgebrov as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Is Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot good?
Yes. 87% audience score, estimated from 184 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 100%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
