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Ivan The Terrible. Part I

Ivan Groznyy I (Ivan The Terrible) Part I

1944

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Ludmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov ...

7.9

3,900

Drama In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his campaign against the Tartars in Kazan, his illness when all think he will die, recovery, campaigns in the Baltic and Crimea, self-imposed exile in Alexandrov, and the petition of Muscovites that he return, his enemies among the boyars threaten his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A bizarre mix of the undeniably brilliant and the puzzlingly childish (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A monumental sort of film, conveying the dark magnificence of Russian medievalism"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Thematically fascinating both as submerged autobiography and as a daring portrait of Stalin's paranoia"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"One of the most imposing visual experiences in the modern cinema (...) We can see Eisenstein's most complex and striking compositions"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Cherkassov's contorted performance (...) beautifully expresses the conscience of the state torn between absolutism and factionalism, while managing a miraculous integration with a superbly operatic visual style."	POS

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