Ivan the Terrible

Ivan the Terrible (in) is a Soviet film (1942-1946) of Sergueï Eisenstein.

Synopsis

Ivan IV, baptized Ivan the Terrible, was born in 1530. With died of his father Vassili III in 1533, it becomes Grand Prince de Russie. While waiting for her majority, his/her mother Helene Glinskaïa ensures regency. The latter dies in 1538, leaving the State to the boyards which seek to seize the power. In 1547, Ivan IV reached its majority; he is the first Muscovite large-prince with being officially crowned tsar. The same year, he marries Anastasia Romanovna of the family of Romanov. He surrounds himself by faithful advisers and keeps away from the nobility because of the revolt of noble during his childhood. He joins together the first zemski sobor , which is a kind of general states. He reorganizes the country and reinforces his autocratic position by removing capacities with the boyards and the Church. In 1550, it launches a reform of the administrative and legal system: unified directions are created for finances, the foreign affairs and the war; the capacities of the voïvodes, the governors of provinces, are limited. In 1560, he undertakes a new reform on the local government and the tax system which are reorganized, in particular with the detriment of the boyards which see private taxes that they always had the right to take on the taxes collected by them for the tsar. In 1564, Ivan IV abdicates and leaves Moscow with part of the court. But a few weeks later under the popular pressure, it agrees to go up on the throne. In 1565, it takes part of Moscovie with personal capacity and even directs it him to redistribute it with its more faithful partisans, thus creating new civils servant the opritchniki. The boyards dissatisfied with their loss of being able plot against the Tsar who will exterminate them without pity what was worth the nickname of “Ivan the Terrible to him”. In 1552, the Muscovite armies conquered and annexed the kingdom tatar of Kazan, and Astrakhan which become a Russian territory in 1556. It makes peaceful the borders of the East of Russia. It authorizes the commercial contributions between England and Russia.

Often excessive and cruel, Ivan IV founds strong Russia and creates a supreme model of capacity for the Czar.

Distribution

Nikolai Tcherkassov : Ivan
Loudmila Tchelikovskaïa : Anastasia
Burmese Serafina: Euphrosinia
Piotr Kadotchnikov : Vladimir
Mikhaïl Naznavov: Kourbsky
Andrei Abrikosov: Kolitchev
Mikhaïl Jarov : Skouratov
Amvrosi Boutchma : Basmanov
Vsevolod Poudovkine : Nikola, the fanatic

Around film

The film was to comprise a third part which was not carried out. The film was censured until 1958, feeling Stalin concerned. The film received the Price of photography to the Festival of Lucarno in 1946 and was classified seventh of ten best films of the world cinema by professional criticism according to the English magazine " Sight and Sound" in 1962.

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