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In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his campaign against the Tartars in Kazan, his illness when all think he will die, recovery, campaigns in the Baltic and Crimea, self-imposed exile in Alexandrov, and the petition of Muscovites that he return, his enemies among the boyars threaten his success. Chief among them are his aunt, who wants to advance the fortunes of her son, a simpleton, and Kurbsky, a warrior prince who wants both power and the hand of Anastasia. Ivan deftly plays to the people to consolidate his power.

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His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers. Needing friendship, he brings to court Kolychev, now Philip the monk, and makes him metropolitan bishop of Moscow. Philip, however, takes his cues from the boyars and tries to bend Ivan to the will of the church. Ivan faces down Philip and lets loose his private force, the Oprichniks, on the boyars. Led by the Tsar’s aunt, Euphrosyne, the boyers plot to assassinate Ivan and enthrone her son, Vladimir. At a banquet, Ivan mockingly crowns Vladimir and sends him in royal robes into the cathedral where the assassin awaits.

	
Ivan the Terrible, Part 2.mkv

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The post Sergei M. Eisenstein – Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor AKA Ivan the Terrible Part 2 (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Matthew Rovner, Jewish Daily Forward wrote:
On February 13, 1948, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency announced that film director Sergei Eisenstein, “the son of a Jewish merchant,” was dead at the age of 50. Eisenstein’s father was a prosperous German Jew and his mother Russian Orthodox. Eisenstein grew up highly assimilated, though he was aware of his Jewish heritage. He was friendly with Isaac Babel, and he learned to use Yiddish slang and humor. But Eisenstein’s Judaism had always been marginal to his work as an artist. In his first feature, “Strike,” a serious propaganda film, there is humor, although it is influenced more by Charlie Chaplin than Sholom Aleichem.

Strike has now been restored in a high quality DVD release.The film tells a straightforward tale of a factory strike during Czarist times, and the subsequent annihilation of the strikers by the Czar’s brutal police.

“Strike”’s reputation rests almost exclusively on its final moments. In the closing sequence, the Czar’s police massacre the workers. Intercut with this scene are images of the slaughter of a bull. Eisenstein is justly famous for his theory and practice of montage — the juxtaposition of two unrelated images that are joined in the act of editing to create a compelling synthesis or new meaning. But “Strike” is, unfortunately, rather dull. There is little in the film that lives up to the final sequence, and nothing as rousing as the celebrated “Odessa steps sequence” in Battleship Potemkin.

“Strike” possesses all the cliches of a communist propaganda film: oppressed workers, slimy class traitors, and obscenely fat capitalists smoking cigars. And there is little about the film’s style that transcends these propagandistic trappings. “Strike” is ultimately a film for Eisenstein completists. Anyone interested in his films would do better to watch “Potemkin,” “Alexander Nevsky,” or “Ivan The Terrible Parts I & II.”

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Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Ivan Grozniy) is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia commissioned by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified himself with Ivan, to be written and directed by the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Part I was released in 1944 but Part II was not released until 1958, as it was banned on the order of Stalin, who became incensed over the depiction of Ivan therein. Eisenstein had developed the scenario to require a third part to finish the story but, with the banning of Part II, filming of Part III was stopped and what had been completed was destroyed. – wiki

Naum Kleiman is an historian of cinema, Russian film critic, specialist in Sergei Eisenstein, former manager of the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum, Eisenstein-Centre director, actor and filmmaker. He was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1993[1] and a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1991. He is a FIPRESCI laureate. – wiki

The film prepared by the State Film Fund of Russia to the 100th anniversary of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein.

For the first time the film presents unique archival film footages:

– Ivan’s Childhood (prologue to the film carved from the first episode and partially used in the second series)
– Foma and Erema (scenes with pushkars – Russian artilleryman old name (from the beginning of the XV century), not included in the episode “The capture of Kazan” from the first series)
– Mikhail Romm Screen Tests for the role of Queen Elizabeth (to the third series)
– Knight Staden on of the Oprichnina yard (episode filmed for the third series)
– Sketches of a director to the film “Ivan the Terrible”, photographic portraits and archival footages which have embodied of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein.

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Marie Seton wrote:
When he made Potemkin in 1925, Sergei Eisenstein was not only a man with his total personality dedicated to creative work — albeit a creative work aimed at destroying all orthodox concepts of ‘art’ — but he was also a revolutionary fighter, a propagandist for the Russian Revolution. Thus, his work had a utilitarian purpose as well as an artistic one. He was educator and artist. At its most obvious level, Potemkin was regarded as propaganda for the Revolution; at a deeper level it was a highly complex work of art which Eisenstein thought would affect every man who beheld it, from the humblest to the most learned.

Shooting began on March 31, 1925. Sergei began with filming in Leningrad and had time to shoot the railway strike episode, horsecar, city at night and the strike crackdown on Sadovaya Street. Further shooting was prevented by the deterioration weather: permanent fog began. At the same time the director was placed in tight time constraints: the film was needed to be finished by the end of the year, although the script was approved only at the 4th of June. Objectively assessing the situation, Sergei Eisenstein decided to give up the original script consisting of eight episodes to focus only on one – the uprising on the battleship “Potemkin”, which in the all-encompassing scenario of Agadzhanova took up only a few pages (41 frames). Sergei Eisenstein together with Grigori Aleksandrov essentially recycled and extended the script.[8] In addition during the progress of making the picture some episodes were added which were not provided by Agadzhanova’s scenario or by Eisenstein’s scenic sketches, such as the storm scene with which the film begins. As a result, the content of the film was very far from the original script by Agadzhanova.

The film was shot in Odessa which at that time was one of the centers of film production and where it was possible to find a suitable boat for shooting.

The first screening of the film took place December 21, 1925 at the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the anniversary of the 1905 revolution in the Bolshoi Theatre.

The premiere took place in Moscow on January 18, 1926 in the 1st Goskinoteatre (now called the Khudozhestvenny).

The silent film received a voice dubbing in 1930 (during the life of director Sergei Eisenstein), restored in 1950 (composer Nikolai Kryukov) and reissued in 1976 (composer Dmitri Shostakovich) at Mosfilm with the participation of the USSR State Film Fund and the Museum of S.M. Eisenstein under the artistic direction of Sergei Yutkevich.

In 1925, after sale of the film negative to Germany and reediting by director Phil Jutzi, “Battleship Potemkin” was released in the world in a different version of the author’s intention: the shooting of sailors was moved from the beginning to the end of the film. Later it was subjected to censorship and in the USSR some frames and intermediate titles were removed, words of Leon Trotsky in the prologue were replaced with a quote from Lenin.[12] In 2005, under the overall guidance of the Foundation Deutsche Kinemathek, with the participation of the State Film Fund and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the author’s version of the film was restored with the music by Edmund Meisel.

In the film the rebels raise the red flag on the battleship but the Orthochromatic B/W film stock of that period made a red flag look black so a white flag was used instead. The flag was handtinted red for 108 frames by Eisenstein himself for the premiere at the Grand Theatre, which was greeted with thunderous applause by the Bolshevik audience.

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In 1954, Upton Sinclair donated 100,000 feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico to the Museum of Modern Art. From this footage, Jay Leyda, assisted by Manfred Kirchheimer, created an almost four hour long assemblage titled “Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study.” The film is silent with explanatory titles. The MOMA footage was later re-edited by Grigori Aleksandrov to create the 1979 version of “Que Viva Mexico”.

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In 1930, Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tisse began their ambitious Mexican film, with financing collected by the Upton Sinclairs. A year later the backers halted the project before filming was completed. Since then, parts of the filmed footage have been released, but not in the form intended by its makers. The aim of the present film is instructional – to summarize Eisenstein’s film plan and to restore a few fragmentary sequences as they came from Tisse’s camera, without attempting to convey the final form this footage would have taken. The film includes material from the prologue and from the three novellas on which shooting was completed: “Sandunga,” “Fiesta” and “Maguey.”

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The post Sergei M. Eisenstein & Jay Leyda – Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Description: Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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