Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

About Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than…

Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot is a 1958 history film. The film is filed under historical and medieval.

Nikolai Cherkasov stars as Czar Ivan IV, Serafima Birman as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya, Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky, and Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov. It runs 82 minutes and was released in October 1958.

The screenplay is by Sergei Eisenstein. In the United States it streams on HBO Max.

Henry V and Ondanondu Kaladalli make useful companions to Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 185 votes and it carries a NR rating.