Ivan Groznyy
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Sergei M. EisensteinZeneszerző:
Szergej ProkofjevSzereplők:
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Mikhail Zharov, Andrei Abrikosov, Maxim Michajlov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov (több)Tartalmak(1)
Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to begin part three. A spectacle of impressively baroque splendor, it remains one of the great anomalies of film history. Starring Nikolai Cherkassov as the eponymous ruler, the film opens with the 16-year-old's opulent coronation in 1546. He breaks with the custom of marriage to a foreign princess by marrying a Russian girl, Anastasia Romanovna (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya), thereby offending the nobility. In an effort to expand his territory eastward, he leads an army of 100,000 to seize Kazan, succeeding only after a long and bitter campaign. After contracting a seemingly fatal illness, Ivan summons the boyars, led by his aunt Euphrosinia (Serafima Birman), but they refuse his demand to swear allegiance to his one-year-old son, greatly angering the czar. When Ivan miraculously returns to health, he begins to consolidate power in opposition to the boyars. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
(több)Recenziók (1)
Sergei Eisenstein is a giant of Russian and actually worldwide cinema, and the first part of his "Ivan the Terrible" is a great costume drama, but somehow I didn't feel the grandeur that I expected from it. The crowd scenes are here, as usual, but they also seemed small to me, as if their potential wasn't fully utilized. I didn't like the first part too much, it couldn't hold my attention.
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