First Printer Ivan Fedorov

Name: First Printer Ivan Fedorov
Director: Grigori Levkoyev
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1941
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Nikolai Dorokhin, Vsevolod Sanayev, Pavel Shpringfeld, Mikhail Derzhavin, Aleksandr Khokhlov

1941 Drama History 45 minutes Directed by Grigori Levkoyev

About First Printer Ivan Fedorov

Ivan Fyodorov sets up the first printing press in Muscovy under Ivan the Terrible. Printed books are treated as witchcraft. He is accused of heresy.

Cast & crew

More about First Printer Ivan Fedorov

Grigori Levkoyev directed. Evgeny Veisman is credited as the screenwriter on the Kinoafisha listing. Ivan Gorchilin photographed. Nikolay Ivanov-Radkevich wrote the music. Soyuzdetfilm. Released 12 May 1941. Runtime 45 minutes. A biographical short for a young audience. Shown in Czechoslovakia from 1 September 1950.

Themes

the first Russian printing press
a charge of heresy under Ivan the Terrible
Ivan Fyodorov
printing press
Ivan the Terrible
heresy
Soyuzdetfilm

Background

The press Fyodorov ran in Moscow was the first in Russia. Under Ivan IV, printed books were denounced as magic.

Making

Soyuzdetfilm made the printer's life as a 45-minute historical picture, with the charge of heresy as the turn.

Look

Ivan Gorchilin photographed it.

Music

Nikolay Ivanov-Radkevich wrote the music.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Nikolai Dorokhin plays Ivan Fyodorov. Vsevolod Sanayev plays his assistant Pyotr Timofeyev. Pavel Shpringfeld plays Tsar Ivan IV.
Aleksandr Khokhlov plays Prince Vladimir of Staritsa. Mikhail Derzhavin and Gavriil Belov are also credited. Ivan Ryzhov plays an oprichnik.
A file is on Wikimedia Commons as 1941. Первопечатник Иван Федоров.webm.

Scenes

Fyodorov is accused of witchcraft for the books coming off his press.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1941. Первопечатник Иван Федоров.webm)