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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
Not Rated
1958
82m
History
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7.7
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7.3
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As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
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Cast of Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosii Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Nikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Andrei Abrikosov
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir Balashov
Pyotr Volynets
Erik Pyryev
Ivan IV as a boy
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Pavel Massalsky
King Sigismund of Poland
Ada Vojtsik
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger (uncredited)
Sergey Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Semyon Timoshenko
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)
Evgenia Bagorskaya
Lady from Sigismund's court
Sergei Eisenstein
Director / Writer / Producer / Production Design
Yosyp Shpinel
Production Design
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot Ratings & Reviews
Film Culture
Herman G. Weinberg
All the virtues of Part 1 are again present: the stunning pictorial compositions and sombre chiaroscuro of the lighting, the brooding weight of implacable destiny that hangs like a pall over the gloomy palace interior.
Variety
Variety Staff
Ivan the Terrible, Part II is hardly an entertaining film. But it is well worth the time of students of history and the cinema.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
It is as if every frame was intended to be a great -- if not very realistic--painting.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
This enjoyable romp through Russian history is a visual delight.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Thematically fascinating both as submerged autobiography and as a daring portrait of Stalin's paranoia, quite apart from its interest as the historical pageant it professes to be, this is one of the most distinctive great films in the history of cinema.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
the second part works better as a film due to its variety and better pacing towards the end...
TV Guide
More controversial than Part I, it was shelved for a dozen years before the Kremlin allowed its release.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A brilliant cinematic work that was a thinly veiled portrait of not only Stalinism at its worst, but also the failed Bolshevik Revolution.
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