Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946)
aka Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot
aka Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Country: Soviet Union | Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Language: Russian | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 81mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1476×1080 – 25fps – 3.61gb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051790/
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.
This film was withheld by Soviet authorities by order of Joseph Stalin, since this film, dealing with Ivan’s slide into madness and the tyranny of the Oprichnina, did not properly mythologize Ivan IV Grozny to Stalin’s satisfaction. It was not finally released until 10 years after the deaths of director Sergei Eisenstein and Stalin.
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