Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
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Serafima Birman
as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Mikhail Zharov
as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma
as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Erik Pyryev
as Ivan IV as a boy
Sergei Stolyarov
as (uncredited)
Alexander Mgebrov
as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Ada Vojtsik
as Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
Aleksandr Rumnyov
as The Stranger (uncredited)
Semyon Timoshenko
as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Czar Ivan IV
Pavel Kadochnikov
as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Vsevolod Pudovkin
as Nikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail Kuznetsov
as Fyodor Basmanov
Andrei Abrikosov
as Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir Balashov
as Pyotr Volynets
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Pavel Massalsky
as King Sigismund of Poland
