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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Cast
![Nikolai Cherkasov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//coUYMmUSllEqAbKXgKHqU2AWx1L.jpg)
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
![Lyudmila Tselikovskaya](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6QAVPRE9egP44oXxyO2bhnfcmpq.jpg)
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
![Serafima Birman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//Qqrm6KRHWIlC0fFI2PPJcj6rJ7.jpg)
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
![Mikhail Nazvanov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//76lASCUGqtVt0BMiibQQESH6PkX.jpg)
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
![Mikhail Zharov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//3X5pOEGqMFsusSNrUJRiIwTJmn6.jpg)
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
![Amvrosi Buchma](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//vS97uMoPFYKiMnc0vBj0EN93Y89.jpg)
Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
![Mikhail Kuznetsov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ceFF5nxyD4DSWdoo9tl5npoG5lF.jpg)
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
![Pavel Kadochnikov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//byfagGoCuIwiO2uxIdnccAr0i1W.jpg)
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
![Andrei Abrikosov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//iFyogTnPJ108HGY87Qyf5NLQAas.jpg)
Andrei Abrikosov
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
![Alexander Mgebrov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//wvmftSucatisQceW2GHRwum4bAy.jpg)
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
![Maxim Mikhaylov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//f2tYBoFiMHdmHxMphRQZmvQsoyk.jpg)
Maxim Mikhaylov
Archdeacon
![Vladimir Balashov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//mFZjgsHRZomx4isFKmgoGX6kAc.jpg)
Vladimir Balashov
Piotr Volynetz
![Vsevolod Pudovkin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//idMAMfLV6FJ5xRj9m8iybXRSfq3.jpg)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
![Semyon Timoshenko](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Semyon Timoshenko
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
![Aleksandr Rumnyov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rOyEUe4Nse65liaDvcwVdfOMFhQ.jpg)
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger
![Pavel Massalsky](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//g6jxCuexzaheBvRUzSHqkixdLjw.jpg)
Pavel Massalsky
Sigismond, King of Poland
![Valentina Kuznetsova](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Valentina Kuznetsova
Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
![Sergei Stolyarov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6bozjY7ul7kmfT7904jsd2Mf3f7.jpg)