
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
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Nikolai Cherkasov as Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Mikhail Nazvanov as Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosii Buchma as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Andrei Abrikosov as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

Alexander Mgebrov as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Maxim Mikhaylov as Archdeacon

Vladimir Balashov as Piotr Volynetz

Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

Semyon Timoshenko as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador

Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger

Pavel Massalsky as Sigismond, King of Poland

Valentina Kuznetsova as Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)

Sergei Stolyarov as (uncredited)

Anel Sudakevich as Sigismond's court lady

Lidiya Naumova as

Boris Feodosyev as Boyar

Vladimir Uralskiy as Archbishop
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