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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944 · Movie · 1h 35m · NR

Second of the two Ivan The Terrible films by score. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot leads at 83. Streaming on Max.

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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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SourceRatingWeight
IMDb7.7/1053%
Rotten Tomatoes100%26%
TMDB7.3/10241 votes21%
Balasaur Score82100%

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