Tsar Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Царь Иван Грозный, romanized: Tsar Ivan Groznyy) is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Gennady Vasilyev.[1][2][3] It is based on Alexey Tolstoy's novel "Prince Serebrenni"
Tsar Ivan the Terrible | |
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Russian: Царь Иван Грозный | |
Directed by | Gennady Vasilyev |
Written by | |
Produced by | Ismail Tagi-Zade |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Boris Bondarenko |
Music by | Aleksey Rybnikov |
Production company | Tiskino |
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Running time | 137 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Plot edit
The film tells about Ivan the Terrible and his brutal rule of Russia. But even during the darkest times, there are always such people as Prince Serebrenni or Morozov.[4]
Cast edit
- Kakhi Kavsadze as Tsar Ivan the Terrible
- Igor Talkov as Prince Serebrenni
- Larisa Shakhvorostova as Yelena (as Larisa Totunova)
- Stanislav Lyubshin as Morozov
- Andrey Martynov as Malyuta Skuratov
- Andrey Sokolov as Vyazemsky
- Dmitri Pisarenko as Fyodor Basmanov
- Andrey Tolubeyev as Boris Godunov
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Korshin
- Vladimir Antonik as Persten[5]
- Valery Garkalin as Vaska Gryaznoy
- Galiks Kolchitsky as Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (voiced by Rogvold Sukhoverko)
- Sergei Kolesnikov as Khlopko, the robber
- Ivan Ryzhov as the miller-sorcerer
- Zoya Buryak as Pasha
- Stefaniya Stanyuta as Anufrievna
- Valentina Titova as abbess of the monastery
- Olga Drozdova as Anastasia Romanovna
- Nikolay Smorchkov as archer