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Ivan the Terrible: Part 2

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Ivan the Terrible: Part 2
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NR,1hr 24min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1946
Director:
Sergei Eisenstein
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov  ...more
Synopsis: The second part of Sergei Eisenstein's baroque chronicle of the legendary Russian czar was originally planned as a three-part epic. But Eisenstein had battles with Russian censors over the second part of his trilogy, ostensibly because of a negative depiction of Ivan's secret police force (Stalin feared that Eisenstein was making a veiled reference to himself). Although filmed shortly after Part One in 1946, the film was suppressed and was not released until 1958. In the meantime, Eisenstein, who ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
The second film in director Sergei Eisenstein's planned trilogy of the life of Russian czar Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Grozny II was filmed in 1946 (following the first installment), but went unreleased until 1958. The delay was due to Stalin's obvious unhappiness with the resemblance, intentional or not, between Ivan the Terrible's totalitarian ways and his own. Though parts of the third film were ... Full Review
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Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV, Ivan the Terrible
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Amvrosiy Buchma
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