Ivan the Terrible

12/11/2009 - 2:00pm

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Film: Ivan the Terrible

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Venues:Kino Hut

Description:

In 1547, Ivan IV crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. Ivan deftly plays to the people to consolidate his power.
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible II: The Boyars’ Plot (Russia, 1958, 88 min.)
His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers.

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