This picture is about a man who united Russia and created a single powerful state from separate disunited and self-serving principalities in the 16th century, about a sovereign who for the first time laid the crown of the Tsar of All Russia on himself, about one of the most complex, powerful and controversial personalities - about the king Ioann Vasilievich, who went down in history under the name of Terrible.

IMDb rating: 7,7

Year of production: 1944

Director: Eisenstein Sergei
Screenwriter: Sergei Eisenstein
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Cinematographers: Tisse Eduard, Moskvin Andrey
Production Designer: Spinel Joseph
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Andrei Abrikosov, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Ambrose Buchma, Alexander Mgebrov, Maxim Mikhailov, Vsevolod Pudovkin

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