Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) — drama, history film. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov. This page maps 6 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 7.4/10 from 177 votes.
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Ivan's struggle to impose absolute rule transforms political opposition, religious resistance, and suspected betrayal into an escalating crisis of power.
Drama, History · 7.4/10 · 82 min · 1958
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.
