Product Details

• Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov
• Directors: Eisenstein
• Format: Import, NTSC, Black & White
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 169 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0002U3TOW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,631 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

LANGUAGE (AUDIO): RUSSIAN ONLY; SUBTITLES: NO SUBTITLES. COKS (Alma-Ata), 1945, 87 min. - 1st series Mosfilm, 1945, 82 min. - 2nd series Film was devoted to a theme of strengthening the absolute rule. In 1547, 17 years old Moscow Prince Ivan Vasilevich has risen to an imperial throne, and in few years has won the Kazan campaign. He had to go through the death of his first wife, betrayal of a friend and seignioral plot. In a struggle for power the czar was ruthless. S.M.Eisenstein's last film. A masterpiece of a world cinema, a historical film-epopee. The state premium of the USSR, 1946. Director: S. Eisenstein Script Writer: S. Eisenstein Composer: S. Prokofiev Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Amvrosii Buchma, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Pavel Massalsky, Alexander Mgebrov, Georgy Bitsin.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars not so terrible as Ivan and others contemporany leaders, July 11, 2011

By 

Adelgicio J. M. Paula (Brasil) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Grozny (Russian Soundtrack Only) (DVD)

This is a well known film of Eisenstein, that relates some aspects of the conturbated life of Ivan IV - an important tsar of the medieval period of the russian history. It was the phase of the creation of the Russian State and the film reveals the reaction of the neighbours ennemies of the recent built kingdon of Russia in Moscow. Also reveals the plans of Ivan to expand the russian territory and the internal intriges in the court, through some boyards. Ivan is represented as a lucid king in the political aspects, but took by psychosis in the domestic questions. I imagine that Eisenstein wants to uncover some critic about the new russian leader - Stalin.