Ivan The Terrible - Part 1, 1943, by Sergei Eisenstein

[mcflyloveme]

Not gonna lie, love Russian history and Ivan but thought this film was terribly dull. Feel free to judge my ignorance.

[HorrorCinephile]

this ending scene is also one of the most visually stunning of eisenstein's carreer, minus the steps in potemkin.

[HorrorCinephile]

probably my favourite of eisenstein's it is his biggest endeavor by far, ... too bad part III wasn't made. it's a shame.

[MrExorcist7]

where did you get the subtittles?

[spams3538]

Great King of Russia !

[Tareltonlives]

There really should be another movie about Ivan Grozny. The guy was a psycho, but a really interesting and important character who ultimately helped his country. At least he got a movie, unlike Stephen Bathory, less picturesque but no more influential and very heroic.

[smilly456]

ivan has left his mark for genarashons to injoy

[spirmessi]

if you like to see the movies history watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy.

[SupernautG]

Ivan's nickname of "terrible" really meant "awesome" in the old English meaning of "terrible" which today means "horrible". A translation closer to the intended sense would be Ivan the Fearsome, or Ivan the Formidable.

[Hellgoregaming]

@SupernautG So his personal torture chamber and the fact he boiled his own people just happen to be a side note?

[SupernautG]

@Hellgoregaming Everyone back then did that kind of torture - no big deal for them. I mean look at what they did in merry old England at that time so to claim what Ivan did was more gruesome and that is why he has this rep is not factual. In Russian it is Ivan Groznyi; actually means something closer to "Redoubtable" or "Severe" and carries connotations of might, power and strictness rather than horror or cruelty.

[Plottoberry]

@SupernautG I heard this in college as well! =D

[japan2999]

i am not from Russia but i loved this movie ,it was a really masterpiece

[dantasjacome]

um dos melhores filmes feito ate hoje

[rcarsonable]

Thank you so much for posting this. I have a question though. I thought that some of the scenes were in color. Is this missing some scenes or did I just not notice when it changed?

[superdavid002]

I mention Eisenstein in The Celebrity Song.

[benzebenze]

procession at 2:30

[immortalx50]

pure joy for admirers of the classic cinema

[POPERSever]

superbe film, même si en le remettant dans le contexte de son tournage,l'occupation nazie,l'omnipresence de staline,le contrôle et tout ça ,a mes yeux ça reste un grand film,sovietique pour le coup,pour l'histoire,sur l'histoire ,BRAVO

[GanJanDan]

can you please give up you rhetoric about capitalism vs communism? Fucking americans are always the same. The most important thing in this film is not about politics but was about the fact Eisenstein was a cinema genius e this was his masterpiece. the soviets only recognized later because their dogma and the americans because they are all the same. is about russia, is about communism so let it burn. step aside your ideologies and observe this masterpiece. the americans also have their ones

[permea]

one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of cinema!

[nickcretensis]

Truly a masterpiece. Ivan a symbol of despotism and at the same time a tragic figure that surpasses the boundaries of time!

[dcelis96]

around wut time wuz this dude around?

[elephanta2]

Eisenstein is the greatest film maker in the world and of all times.

[Jacquinot1982]

Ivan the Terrible first anti oligarch fighter

[ultradumbass]

i remember reading stalin and his hangmen and they mentioned this film. stalin complained that ivan became too soft and did not mention why he had to be cruel and he claimed that god got too much in his way lol.

[jackal59]

I know this is sacrilege, but I've always found Eisenstein's sound films to be horribly mannered and wholly unsuccessful.

[normanallan]

I thought Ivan was brilliantly mannered and totally successful

[CastorInfection]

one of the best films

[Jame243]

This is my favorite movie of Eisenstein.

Brilliant! The beginning of the Movie is the Coronation Scene! Majestic! It glorifies the Period of the Great Princes of Moscow of whom Ivan was the first to be crown as Tsar of Russia and of all the Russians.I like the end when Ivan IV the Formidable rises from the bed and returns to Moscow triumphant!

A great patriotic film that rightly glorifies the Great Monarchs of the Russian Empire.

Russian History,language and culture is my favorite subject.

[babajaga39]

We are brothers and sisters then! I love the same too.

[G0JETSG0]

@Jame243 you know he beat his pregnant daughter causing a miscarriage, and he put a spear through his son's head right? and that was probably on one of his good days, guy was messed up, plain and simple

[TheKey273]

@Jame243 may be your favorite subject, but you know nothing about it if you think that Eisenstein was glorifying the Great Monarchs of the Russian Empire. It intends to be a strong criticism to it, and under the surface, it's a strong criticism to Stalin for betraying the Bolchevique revolution.

[JediMasterMario]

Dude Ivan looks so boss in this movie haha.

[rubber4532]

gotta love Ivan's wardrobe

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

I know. Ivan knows how to accessorize.

[iArtsakh]

This film is beautifully done! One of the best!

[phantomangelfire08]

Eisenstein's films are mostly Soviet propaganda, which is the reason for his treatment of the subject material, but that doesn't make them any less brilliant. Ivan the Terrible is my personal favorite of his films. This is not the beginning of the film, however. If I remember correctly, it's near the beginning of the second half.

[Beaumain]

If Eisenstein films are "soviet propaganda", then Mal Gibson or Riddley Scott films should be "american propaganda", and so on.

[BigDaddyBongos]

Ha. Ok braniac, dig up a soviet-era film critical of Communism? Oh you can't? Then you just got served, biach.

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

Actually, there are loads. Just look for 'em. The only reason Communism is associated with mass murder is because it hasn't happened yet, due to it being so easy for dictators to take over.

[tamandocomando]

could someone please post this movie? i would very much like to see it?

[ivan55599]

this movie WAS in video google, but it got deleted D:

[tamandocomando]

aww :(. do you know any other websites where it might be seen?

[ivan55599]

nope, but when l watched, l maybe found that movie is downloadable in torrent(free). l haven donwloaded it yet, it takes 700 mb memory

[animegalc4]

This depicts Ivan The Terrible as a hero but that is far from the truth.

[xXxforbesxXx]

umm is he a hero or a villian?

[animegalc4]

Villian, obviously.

[ivan55599]

hero of course

[ultradumbass]

he has to be a villain. he use to poke the eyes out of dead animals and throw them over a tower and watch them die, and he use to rip the feathers off of birds and throw them out in the snow and watch them freeze in the snow and he killed millions with his Oprnick secret police and he even killed his son in a fight by smashing his son's head with a wood block.

[archanticipator]

Millions?!

Where you take nonsence for your head?

[Jacquinot1982]

Ivan the Terrible just fights with moscow oligarhs who wants convert russian monarchy in moscow marionet monarchy, Ivan just want be strong cesar!

[samsamiisamiiii]

guys about eisenstein copying other's you need to read his books, he is the founder of the FILM LANGUAGE, the ABC's of cinema, the man is genius, and regardless of his politics, he is the founder of the film as an art, if u know how he edited his movies you will be more amazed, he is just a great man, compare him to film makers of his time, griffith as an example and u will see the difference, thnaks for posting it

[tgcnow]

A beautiful and tragic scene. Sadly true today ...

I don't think you can say Eisenstein copied Expressionist film making when both emerged at about the same time.

His situation in the Stalinist cultural world should be compared to the difficulties faced by the composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich ... I don't think any of us who haven't been stuck in that sort of mileu should be too quick in our judgements ... how many of us could be as heroic as we think we would be?

[inreanre]

No doubt that´s a good movie, BUT:

Eisenstein is absolutely overvalued!

He only copied german expressionist directors of the 20s.

I don´t know a single film, which is not filled with subtle propaganda allusions, like anti-western democracy, anti-bourgois, anti-germanism, peparing russian population to war.

So he not only lived in Stalinism, like many other artists; his movies activly helped spreading stalinstic contents. There´s no big difference to Riefenstahl, but he´s still a big director

[dipshitdoodah]

Oddly enough, while his movies were praised worldwie, in the Soviet Union he was often criticised for being too non-comformist.

Ivan The Terrible Part 2 was even banned by Stalin himself because it depicted Ivan as a tyrant.

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

He was forced by Stalin to return to the Soviet Union. He himself was anti-Stalinist, as Stalin was NOT a Communist. He didn't want to make this film about Stalin. In his later films he mocked him.

[babajaga39]

I have to agree! It is good to know that more people on the world know about these facts too: Stalin in fact really hated Communistst, and killed as many of tehm as he could. And in fact Stalin was who got Eisenstein killed.

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

I thought Eisenstein died of a heart attack! :(

[babajaga39]

Unfortunately it wasn't so: he got killed for the order of Stalin as many of the Russian artists. Although in those times it was known as "heart attack", his death was somehow suspicious even for the believers of the system.

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

I didn't know that... that's just terrible...poor Eisenstein! :(

[ultradumbass]

stalin was communist and it is normal to kill other communists because they want to keep power. just because he did not go by what marx and other communist scholars wrote of communism that pre-dates marx doesn't mean he wasn't communist, because that would be saying nobody is from any party because no political party in history goes flawless.

[Beaumain]

Hahahaha, do people still believe in Cold War old tales? babajaga39 is a troll.

[ultradumbass]

he only died by a firing squad(or execution) because nobody knows how he truly died just like several other party people died in ways we don't know how. and dying quickly is a blessing in there because over 100 million people through eastern europe and many more in asia were either starved to death or sent to work camps and worked to death. one ironic thing of 3rd world countries though is they become more literate than westerners because all they have access to is books because they get no tv.

[BigDaddyBongos]

Stalin was definately a Communist. He's the end product of Communism, and it's highest achievement. A butcher on a scale never before seen in human history. All communists need to be proud of that achievement. After all, it's what they really want, even though they won't admit it.

[VanillaGem]

oh yeah, u belive anything u hear on tv. they spread lies about everything. have u been in a communist country? so stop talking (im not a communist)

[BigDaddyBongos]

Not on TV, just historical fact. Of the 36 countries around the world that have become communist, one of the things they have in common is butchering large numbers of people. It stands to reason that it's a communist goal, either intentionally or subconciously.

[42MOL4EVER]

Stalin was more an atuocrat than a communist, once he had inherited the suedo-communist russia from lennin he slaughtered anyone who threatened his power and the wealth of himself and his constituents, nothing to do with being comunist, he was just insanly power hungry. but if it weren't for him Hitler woulda mopped the floor with us and facism would reign:P

[envanje]

I once heared a Russian say that Russia defeated nazism, not thanks to Stalin, but notwithstanding Stalin, I think he was right.

[archanticipator]

No, it is lie.

[Cramnella]

The slaughter began with Lenin. The west should have left the collectivist Nazis and communists to slaughter one another then mopped up what was left of the "victor."

[EVILW0LFgirl]

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[Cramnella]

@EVILW0LFgirl

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[EVILW0LFgirl]

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[ilovemingers]

BigDaddyBongos needs a cuddle.

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

Stalin was a Communist? Olease.

Also, the Communists I know, including in my own family are some of the nicest people on Earth and hate Stalin. Love the screen name by the way.

[BigDaddyBongos]

Yup. Just because he was better and more direct at enacting the final goals of communism doesn't mean that he wasn't communist. And the fact that of the 36 different countries that tried communism in your mind "failed" to enact "real communism" really should get you to start questioning whether or not the problem is with communism itself rather than just saying "oh they just didn't get it right".

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

No, because then I'd be a quitter. I'd be quitting on the workers of the world. Communism believes in everyone helping each other out, in anti-racism, anti-sexism and anti-homophobia. In a world where people come before profit.

And even if it never happens, at least I could still say I never gave up trying to make it happen.

[BigDaddyBongos]

"Communism believes in everyone helping each other out" No, it believes in slaughtering human beings on a mass scale. The current death toll is estimated by some as 149,469,610 since 1918. Exactly how many human beings have to die before you're prepared to re-examine your ideas?

[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

That's funny, because I don't remember reading that in the manifesto. And considering Communism has never happened. No. There's no point in even argueing with you, because you're not listening to what anyone is saying, you're just bleating the same arguement over and over again.

[BigDaddyBongos]

Who's not listening? Me? Really? You're the one who isn't even willing to re-consider their ideas in the face of human death on the scale of hundreds of millions of people. You're not even willing to even consider the idea that attempting to implement Marx's ideas _leads_ to these levels of mass death? Not at all? Not even when that's what has happened every single time that people have attempted to implement communism???

[envanje]

BigDaddy, just a question, does your figure include the nazi victims ?

And what about the death toll about those killed by wars between people with the same political views, e.g. U.S. versus Japan, U.S. versus Germany, The whole first world war ? Communism was not the issue by then.

[4K4K1K0]

But there are people out there who call themselves communists and call people who are against Stalin "revisionists".

Now, who are the real socialists/communists?

Who are you to decide what what is?

[leonsdottir]

@4K4K1K0

Trotsky/Stalin thing is mainly not a question of real communist/not real communist

it's a question of revolution (Trotsky) / counterrevolution (Stalin)

[dicthash]

@BigDaddyBongos

real butcher of Russian people was Trotsky

[dicthash]

@BigDaddyBongos

in fact Stalin was a man who prefered old sweet Empire to jewish "world revolution" project that actually was nothing more than today's liberal globalisation project driven from Washington DC. Stalin destroyed this jewish project that's why he is hated and demonized by almost all jews here in Russia.

[tamandocomando]

i saw bits of this movie during my history class when we were studying ivan the terrible. i really wanna see it now :). 1 question-who plays ivan, cuz he did a good job!

[mertesin]

I'm so happy that you are interested in watching films of Sergei Eisenstein.

Nikolai Cherkasov plays Czar Ivan IV and I think also he is very successful like you said.Which other films of Eisenstein have you ever watched?

[tamandocomando]

actually, i havent seen any of eisenstein's films, but my dad has. my dad especially liked 'aleksander nevsky' :)

[mertesin]

I like "Aleksandr Nevsky" of Eisenstein,too. I watched "October" of him and it's a beautiful film,too.Have you ever watched it? I advise you to watch it if you havn't watched.Perhaps Sergei Eisenstein's political films are much more than his other films like "Ivan the Terrible" or "Aleksandr Nevsky"

[edgar0001]

but Iwan is much deeper in content. It shows typical centralisation problems in feudalism that may more or less happen in whole Europe this or a similar way. The role of religion and psychology was also not forgoten. A great film in a sea of shit films.

[mertesin]

All films of Sergei Eisenstein are classic.

I love all of them,but I especially advise all American,British,Canadian,Aust­ralian etc. film spectators "Alexander Nevsky" of Eisenstein."Alexander Nevky" is also a beautiful film like "Ivan The Terrible".

[Deliogul]

This is not propaganda. It is a work of a master. The two "Ivan the Terrible" films by Soviet director Eisenstein are belong to the list of best movies ever made. Of course if you like Hollywood mambo jambo, you would neither like or understand this film.

[Slaviccommie]

He was called Ivan Grozny-russian language.

Ivan Hrozny is Slovak language.

In english it means not Ivan the Terrible but Ivan the Horrible.

[VolgaTatar2007]

This is a good piece of Soviet propaganda. Very entertaining but dumb.

[nottsforest99]

Ivan "Grozny" means Ivan "The thunderer" because Ivan introduced gunpowder artillery into the Moscovite army. The canon were used in the successful siege of Kazan.

[mcdevster]

Correction Lenin was already dead by the time this was made... you must mean Stalin..

[onur0708]

İzlediğim en iyi filmlerden biri. Eisenstein iç ve dış mekan görselliklerini çok iyi imgelemleyerek ego üstü dışavurumları çok iyi anlatmış. İşte sinema bu. Ayrıca N. Çerkasov da izlediğim en iyi aktörlerden biri.

[VolgaTatar2007]

Ivan the Terrible = Иван ГрЯзный

[RealJoeSixpaq]

Mongol shuudan!

[Thegodofhats]

I thought Lenin liked the first part, but not the 2nd.

Great film anyways, thanks for uploading.

[0ccg0]

it was stalin ! lenin was died for 20 years :)

at the end of the second part, stalin said "it is not a film, it's a nightmare !"

poor eisenstein, the last scene is so beautiful...

[Thegodofhats]

ooh. my bad. lol.

russian history fail.

[daltonagre]

Such as Lenin, Stalin was a fan and follower of Ivan, the terrible.

[prlosolvidados]

Stalin hated the movie, and Eisenstein could not film its third part.

[RealJoeSixpaq]

To be true, Eisenstein was awarded the Stalin Prize for the fist part of the film in 1945.

[cplasgaunas1]

@daltonagre lenin and ivan the terrible hahaha asshole

[Russenliebchen]

@daltonagre  Thank you for giving your wisdom to the community