Where to Watch Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1946) in the US

What it's about

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. Needing friendship, he brings to court Kolychev, now Philip the monk, and makes him metropolitan bishop of Moscow. Philip, however, takes his cues from the boyars and tries to bend Ivan to the will of the church. Ivan faces down Philip and lets loose his private force, the Oprichniks, on the boyars. Led by the Tsar's aunt, Euphrosyne, the boyers plot to assassinate Ivan and enthrone her son, Vladimir. At a banquet, Ivan mockingly crowns Vladimir and sends him in royal robes into the cathedral where the assassin awaits.

Cast and crew

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Writer

Sergei Eisenstein

Starring

Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov

Details

Release date

Nov 24, 1959

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Awards

1 nomination

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