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Ivan the Terrible

Biography, History

Nikolai Cherkasov	Czar Ivan IV
Serafima Birman	Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov	Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Zharov	Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosi Buchma	Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin	Nikolay
Mikhail Kuznetsov	Fyodor Basmanov
Aleksandr Mgebrov	Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Andrei Abrikosov	Archbishop Philip
Vladimir Balashov	Pyotr Volynets

Director	Sergei M. Eisenstein; M. Filimonova
Producer	I. Bakar
Writer	Sergei M. Eisenstein

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.