Best deal 💯 Ivan The Terrible – Part 1 And Part 2 – The Boyars Plot DVD – Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov ❤️

Sergei Eisenstein’s saga of Czar Ivan IV continues with the struggle for power and the use of secret police, a controversial segment that caused the film to be banned by Stalin in 1946 (the film was not released until 1958). The predominantly black-and-white film features a banquet dance sequence in colour. Obviously the two parts must be viewed as a whole to be fully appreciated. Many film historians consider this period in Eisenstein’s career less interesting than his silent period because of a sentimental return to archaic forms (characteristic of Soviet society in the 1930s and ’40s). Perhaps it was just part of his maturity. –Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com