Ivan the Terrible II (film)
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| German title | Ivan the Terrible II | ||
| Original title | Иван Грозный (Ivan Grozny) |
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| Country of production | Soviet Union | ||
| original language | Russian | ||
| Publishing year | 1958 | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK none | ||
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| Director | Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein | ||
| script | Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein | ||
| production | Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein | ||
| music | Sergei Prokofiev | ||
| camera |
Andrei Moskwin , Eduard Tissé |
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| cut | Esfir Tobak | ||
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The film Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein shows the life of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (1530–1584) from the age of 16.
The work, originally laid out in three parts, consists of two episodes in the length of a feature film. Ivan the Terrible Part I shows the rise of the tsar; this part was awarded and praised by Stalin . The second part shows Ivan's "Horror", the showing of this second part was initially banned, so that the film was not seen in Russia for the first time until 1958. A third part remained incomplete, so that only a few scenes remained.
action
The film begins with the return of the tsar to Moscow, which the people asked for after his abdication. He pushes through a state reform that weakens the position of the nobility. Ivan's wife Anastassija Romanovna Sakharjina was poisoned and his confidante Kurbski had defected to the Poles. Ivan is therefore on his own with his plans for a united Russia without foreign rule. However, since he needs friends, he brings the monk Philip to him and makes him Metropolitan of Moscow. However, he tries to force the will of the church and the boyars on Ivan . Ivan subdues Philip and sends his private army, the oprichniki , against the boyars. Supported by Yefrosinija, the tsar's aunt, the boyars try to murder Ivan and bring their son Vladimir to the throne. At a banquet, Ivan crowns Vladimir and sends him to the cathedral in royal robes, where Vladimir - instead of the Tsar - is murdered by an assassin.
shape
The film is complex. The camera focuses on individual concrete processes that appear detached, but still form a whole with the other scenes. The camera is never panned, but photographed or focused. The facial expressions of individual actors, especially their interaction in certain scenes, the alternation of light and dark as well as effective movement sequences (for example the movement of a car in a curved motion in a panoramic perspective) characterize the film as an expressionist main work of the film, although it is part of the filmmaking process of Stalinism is. The collaboration with Prokofiev , in particular, ensures a perfect interplay of image and music.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film created "dark visions of power and submission" ; the “ingeniously designed picture compositions” would reveal the “dialectic of political autocracy” .
Web links
- Ivan the Terrible II in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ivan the Terrible II in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summary on 1000dokumente.de, accessed on March 2, 2014.
- ↑ "I decided to work myself to death" - Sergej Eisenstein's last film "Ivan the Terrible" on phonostar.de, accessed on March 2, 2014.
- ^ Storyline on imdb.com, accessed March 2, 2014.
- ↑ Ivan the Terrible on filmzentrale.com, accessed March 2, 2014.
- ↑ Ivan the Terrible II ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from filmsucht.org, accessed March 2, 2014.
- ^ Ivan the Terrible II. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed December 23, 2018 .
