Song about the Beaver, Ivan the Terrible part 2

[EvanTeH]

AAAH!!

[DiscoveringIslam]

Many non-Muslims view the Islamic head scarf as a sign of Muslim women being oppressed by Muslim men. Look at the dignified Christian Russian lady in this video. She is wearing a head scarf very similar to what Muslim women wear.

[edgar0001]

however - she killed and oppressed others.

[phantomangelfire08]

But this is not a good woman.

[Extraordinaire]

The Arab Muslim imperialists appropriated the headscarf from the practice of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine empire when they conquered Medieval Levantine Christendom (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt). Its usage continued, not only among Middle Eastern Christians, Jews, and Muslims, but also among Russian & Slavonic Orthodox Christians. The former, of course, saw themselves as the heirs of the Byzantines following the successful Ottoman Jihad against Constantinople in 1453.

[Extraordinaire]

I should add that the woman in the video, Efrosinia, the aunt of Tsar Ivan IV and mother of the young man in the video (Vladimir) was a conniving louse. She is wearing clothing typical for a Boyarina (female Russian slave-holding aristocrat) of her time. She was not oppressed, yet oppressed others (her serfs, for instance). I must add that women living under Sharia law, who are forced to wear the chador or burqa, certainly are, whether they realize it or not. (Dis)Honor(able) killings, anyone?

[fjdmusicman]

Hello everyone ? THIS IS A FILM not REALITY

[JosLutgens]

@DiscoveringIslam

She wears a head scarf because it is cold in Russia...

[FaultYesteryear]

a great scene

[mertesin]

I don't like that witch.She is enemy of Czar Ivan IV.She poisoned Czarina on the film's first part.

[edgar0001]

You are right and she also is for my feeling terribly ugly. However, the good and evil sheme or ideology does not help and is superficial. Eisenstein plays with dialectic and gives any side a place as it has in reality. Without it it would be a lie, not good, not deep and would not lead to understand the interdepence.

[willym]

Just a small editing note here: that should read Efrosinia Staritska sings a song to her son ... she is a Boyarina implicated in the plot but I must admit the first time I saw the film I was sure it was a man.

[ZeroMyHero99]

@willym

So I'm not the only one who thought she looked like a man?

[maeghan1edits]

The first time I watched this scene, about a year ago, I almost died laughing. I have yet to see anything that lives up to it.

[Feckinpaddy29]

This is my favorite Eisenstien film! I would really like it if you could maybe post the following scene at the banquet. I love the kosack dances and the Prokofiev score. That scene is actually filmed with captured color film from Germany after the war.

[nnikif]

check out my new videos. actually, cossacks were a sort of freemen (see Gogol's Taras Bulba), while the evil embodiment of the central power in the film is called oprichna (oprichniks).

[hiddentube]

It may have a lack of realism, but its good.