The Death of Ivan the Terrible
About The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Vasily Goncharov stages Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's play about the last days of Tsar Ivan IV. A. Slavin plays Ivan, Yelizaveta Uvarova the tsarina, S. Tarasov Boris Godunov, and Nikolai Vekov the boyar Nagoy.
Cast & crew
More about The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Goncharov wrote and directed the short for Paul Thiemann's firm. The role of Garaburda was Yakov Protazanov's first film part. Viewers complained that Slavin was too heavy for an Ivan remembered as an ascetic.
Themes
Reviews
The trade paper Cine-Phono attacked the photography and wrote that if the film reached France, viewers there would not laugh: they would take it as proof of how low Russian film, photography, and acting stood. The paper said it would have been simpler to leave the subject alone or to film it with Stanislavsky's actors.
Notes
- Yakov Protazanov appears as Garaburda, his screen debut.
- The Russian title is Smert Ioanna Groznogo.
- It is a silent historical drama.
Influenced by
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's play The Death of Ivan the Terrible
