Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible

1915 DramaHistory 58 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Ivanov-Gai

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About Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible

Feodor Chaliapin is filmed in one of his stage roles, from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Maid of Pskov. The picture is silent, with title cards, so the audience sees the acting and not the singing. Boris Sushkevich and Mikhail Zharov are also billed. Alfons Vinkler is the cinematographer on Wikidata. No director is listed there.

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More about Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible

Wikidata gives 58 minutes and the dates October 16, 1915, and 1915, and names the Russian Empire. The source work is The Maid of Pskov. No production company is listed.

Themes

  • Chaliapin as Ivan
  • a silent record of an opera role
  • Chaliapin
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • Maid of Pskov
  • silent opera

Background

The Maid of Pskov gave Chaliapin his Ivan the Terrible. This short records that stage figure without the music.

Look

Alfons Vinkler is the cinematographer on Wikidata.

Music

The source is an opera, but the film is silent. No score credit is on Wikidata.

Notes

  • Chaliapin is the reason for the film: a record of a famous stage performance.
  • The silence is the point the catalog stresses. The voice is absent.
  • Zharov, later a sound-film comic, is already in the cast.
  • The Commons file is titled 1915. Иван Грозный.

Influenced by

  • Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Maid of Pskov

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1915. Иван Грозный.webm)