Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
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Surrounded by Boyar conspirators seeking to replace him with his feeble-minded cousin, Tsar Ivan forms the Oprichnina—his personal black-robed holy bodyguard—and outmaneuvers an assassination plot during a wild, chromatic color banquet and dance in cathedral vaults. Sergei Eisenstein's operatic, terrifying study of tyrannical paranoia that was personally banned by Joseph Stalin for twelve years until the Khrushchev Thaw.
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