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Ivan the Terrible part I is Eisenstein’s boldest and most successful experiment in stylisation drawing upon other arts - Wagnerian opera, Marinsky ballet and Japanese Kabuki theatre - which he had begun in “Alexander Nevsky”. Ivan’s personal life is interwoven with the themes of his drive for empire and his alliance with the merchant class against the aristocracy. It is the first part of a trilogy; part 2 is dominated by cloak-and-dagger intrigue; part 3 which was to be in colour, was designed but not filmed. Cast includes Nikolai Cherkasov and Ludmila Tselikovskaya.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
316826
Languages
English
Russian
Russian
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Siberia (R.S.F.S.R.)
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Soviet Union - Politics and government
Feature films → Feature films - Soviet Union
History → Ivan IV, Czar of Russia, 1530-1584
History → Soviet Union - History - 1533-1613
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
DVD; Access Print (Section 1)