This picture is about a man who united Russia and created a single powerful state from separate disunited and self-serving principalities in the 16th century, about a sovereign who for the first time laid the crown of the Tsar of All Russia on himself, about one of the most complex, powerful and controversial personalities – about the king Ioann Vasilievich, who went down in history under the name of Terrible.
IMDb rating: 7,7
Year of production: 1944
Director: Eisenstein Sergei
Screenwriter: Sergei Eisenstein
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Cinematographers: Tisse Eduard, Moskvin Andrey
Production Designer: Spinel Joseph
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Andrei Abrikosov, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Ambrose Buchma, Alexander Mgebrov, Maxim Mikhailov, Vsevolod Pudovkin
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I was blessed enough to have an English lit. teacher in high school that introduced us to foreign film .I have been hooked ever since.
I cant believe how many of my so called movie experts friends have never seen this. Its a treat.
This is not a communist film by any chance. No.1 BS
Not to.mention a non Russian made the movie lol
Slava Bogu! Slava Rusiji!
ZOV!
Comrade Stalin had to deal with a lot of factional disunity too and, of course, the USSR was invaded by those who would assimilate it into their empires. 'Reich' means empire in German. Imperial Japan had also attempted military thrusts into the Soviet Union even before Operation Barbarossa was launched. That historical context has to be remembered when you think about the fact that this film came out in 1944.I think that Prokofiev was the best composer of the 20th century. Perhaps that demonstrates my prejudice.
Movie was great with theatre style sequences. But distorting history, I feel was, makes content incomplete. Maybe Stalin’s Russia had that effect on the film.
I heard somewhere that this was one of Stalin's favorite films.
Да, яркий образец советской пропаганды: великий справедливый царь всея Руси, а вокруг мерзкие людишки, которых не жалко. Да и не был он царем Руси, царем Московского царства он был. Как гнали пропаганду, так и гонят… Жаль детей российских, вырастут в дремучести, как и большинство советских детей, которые плакали от того, что переживали за детей ненавистных США и благодарили Сталина за счастливое детство
Peter Weller mentioned the beginning and how Ivan spins around dramatically in beginning….had to see it to believe it.
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Peter Weller found inspiration in Ivan's slow staccato movements for playing Robocop
Приятно внимание и оценка англоязычных зрителей к этой картине❤ мы, в свою очередь, обожаем гениального Шекспира❤
This movie inspired Peter Weller's robocop movements.
It's a shame that Soviet films had such poor sound recording equipment.
É uma pena que não tenha legendas em Português.
Much as I appreciate artistic quality of "Nevsky", I find this flick total crap. But then again, at the time Russia was invaded by Germany and cinematographers used any means no matter how lowly in style to arouse patriotic spirit. I understand that.
To czemu mówicie że macie 1000 lat Państwa Moskiewskiego gówno prawda ????????????????????????????????????
Mosfilm no se olviden que hay mas de 300 millones que hablamos Castellano. Por favor tambien pongan subtitulos en nuestro idioma.
sorry what wewre you saying about judgement loil
I see where the Rocky Horror Picture Show got its inspiration.
Really ? This film made when the WW2 still going on ?
Is that Russian or Klingon !?
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Ivan IV “the Terrible” was a great modernizer in Russian history, comparable to Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin.
The thing is, for the mass of commoners, modernization initiated by the State invariably meant immense suffering. Muscovy at the time of his rule had a terrible shortage of administrative talent. As a result, Ivan’s many ambitious plans were ruined by sheer incompetence—his own and by his henchmen. According to witness accounts, by the end of his rule many parts of Russia’s heartland were deserted by people. Those who hadn’t been taken for cannon fodder in Ivan’s military expeditions or hadn’t starved to death, simply headed for the hills away from the government’s taxmen and recruiters.
Among Ivan the Terrible’s lasting legacy was:
Annihilation of a big part of the landed aristocracy, in an attempt to avert a Magna Carta kind of challenge to his power. This exacerbated the dearth of administrative talent in the country, disrupted the established power networks and ultimately led to the Time of Troubles, when Russians almost lost their statehood to the Catholic Poles.
The first systematic attempt to re-establish the control over the fluvial trade routes from Norhern Europe to the Mediterranean and Caspian markets that we lost in the 12th-13th century. During the era of Varangians, that control was the source of wealth that fed the rise of Kievan Rus. Ivan managed to open the circumferential route from the White Sea to the Caspian Sea—but miserably failed to do the same about the Varangian route from the Baltic to Black Sea.
Devastation of Novgorod and Pskov. These old rich principalities stopped to be significant centers of economic and political power.
These three negative factors forever tarnished his name among Russia’s educated class. Especially many in the clergy made sure that bad news about Ivan the Terrible remained for posterity. Ivan confiscated much of the properties they amassed under the rule of the Chinigizindes. Also, the House of Romanov contributed to remembering him as a sadistic, incompetent tyrant: they didn’t want competition for the throne on the part of the Rurikid descendants.
(In Muscovy, there were no contemporary chronicles that called Ivan IV “terrible”. The first among Russians to use the moniker was the court historian Vasily Tatishchev in the 18th century. He possibly tried to mark a distance between the enlightened rule of the House of Romanov and the barbaric era of the Rurikids.)
Очень своевременный фильм.
Mosfilm, how can you suck so badly at translation? Tsar is not "king" in this case, it means "emperor". However, because in Russian word "tsar" was used to translate Romaic "basileios", it caused confusion in the West. Just like with "basileios", they could not grasp that it could mean either "rex" or "imperator", depending on the context. Ioannes Severus took imperial title and some countries acknowledged it. England for example, where they began to call Russia "Imperium". However, this dual meaning was still too confusing, so Peter the Great changed Tsar to Imperator. Therefore, in Russian Imperial tradition, Ioannes Severus was Ioannes I, not IV. Russian Emperors were counted from him, and not from Peter I.
6:50 The protodeacon singing toast is the great Russian singer bass profundo Maxim Mikhailov.
Thank you so much for the English subtitles! Absolutely magnificent classic!
I LOVE this movie❕❕❕ Everything, the drama ????, the costumes ????????, the effects ????????, the lighting ????????, the music ????, EVERYTHING❕ It is cinematic gold ????
Hurraaaaah!
Why hi friends in the wedding said they gonna leave him?
Religion poisons everything
Dear Mosfilms: I appreciate the information u give us especially the release date. And at least what I’ve seen, no ads! Plus excellent prints: keep up the highest standards ????
This has a pt 2, too
Wow, this film is so bad.
Mind blowing direction. What a fantastic cinematography. Excellent use of light and darkness to capture every emotions. Fantastic!!!!
"The two parts of Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" are epic in scope, awesome in visuals, and nonsensical in story. It is one of those works that has proceeded directly to the status of Great Movie without going through the intermediate stage of being a good movie. I hope earnest students of cinema will forgive me when I say every serious movie lover should see it — once."
– Roger Ebert