Ivan the Terrible part one is Eisenstein’s boldest and most successful experiment in stylisation. It draws upon the other arts - Wagnerian opera, Marinsky ballet and Japanese Kabuki theatre. Ivan’s personal life is interwoven with the themes of his drive for empire and his alliance with the merchant class against the aristocracy. This is the first part of a trilogy; the second part is dominated by cloak and dagger intrigue; the final part, which was to be in colour, was designed but not filmed. Cinematography by Edouard Tisse and Andrei Moskvin. Music by Sergei Prokofieff. Cast includes Nikolai Cherkasov, Ludmilla Tselikovskaya, Seraphina Birman, Pyotr Kadochnikov. In russian with English subtitles.
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ACMI Identifier
319660
Languages
English
Russian
Subject categories
Feature films → Feature films - Soviet Union
History → Historical re-enactments
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)