Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

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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  Nikolai Cherkasov

  Czar Ivan IV
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  Serafima Birman

  Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
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  Pavel Kadochnikov

  Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
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  Mikhail Zharov

  Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
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  Amvrosii Buchma

  Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
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  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Nikolay the Fanatic
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  Mikhail Kuznetsov

  Fyodor Basmanov
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  Alexander Mgebrov

  Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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  Andrei Abrikosov

  Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
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  Vladimir Balashov

  Pyotr Volynets