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Release Date:
November 4, 2009
Original Title:
Царь
Alternate Titles:
Ivan Hrozný
Tsar
Tzar
Царь
Genres:
Drama | History
Production Companies:
Profit
Studio Pavla Lungina
Production Countries:
Russia
Ratings / Certifications:
RU: 16+ US: PG-13
Runtime: 119
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia
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Additional Director of Photography:
Oleg Topoev
Ivan Mamonov
Assistant Director:
Nathalia Lyashenko
Casting Director:
Tatyana Maksakova
Costume Design:
Ekaterina Dyminskaya
Natalya Dzyubenko
Director:
Pavel Lungin
Director of Photography:
Tom Stern
Editor:
Albina Antipenko
Makeup Artist:
Valeriya Nikulina
Irina Ulyanova
Original Music Composer:
Yuri Krasavin
Producer:
Pavel Lungin
Vasily Bernhardt
Olga Vasilyeva
Production Design:
Sergey Ivanov
Screenplay:
Aleksei Ivanov
Pavel Lungin
Set Designer:
Polina Gavrilova
Sound Director:
Stéphane Albinet
Stunt Coordinator:
Alex Silkin
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