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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958
Alexander Nevsky
1938
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928
Strike
1925
Battleship Potemkin
1925
Ivan the Terrible, Part III
1988
The General Line
1929
Que Viva Mexico!
1979
Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
1955
Thunder Over Mexico
1933
Greed
1924
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The first bumpy years of Ivan Vasilyevich as Tsar of all the Russias - fighting foreign enemies on the battlefield and the internal opposition of disgruntled boyars. Conceived as a trilogy celebrating Stalin's rise to power, then abruptly halted when the second installment allegedly displeased the tyrant, Eisenstein's final work is visually as powerful as ever but oddly uneven in pace. Cherkasov's bird-like protagonist is particularly memorable in its silent-movie, eye-rolling excesses. read
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'Terrible' may be great, but not especially good
Roger Ebert
January 19, 2012
The two parts of Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" are epic in scope, awesome in visuals, and nonsensical in story. It is one of those works that has proceeded directly to the status of Great Movie without going through the intermediate stage of being a good movie. I hope earnest students of cinema will forgive me when I say every serious movie lover should see it -- once.
The productions were backed by Stalin, who took Ivan as a personal hero. They were filmed during World War Two, mostly at the Alma Ata read
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