Ivan the Terrible, Part I & II

Ivan the Terrible (1944)
This is a film about a man who in the 16th century for the first time united our country and created a single powerful state from separate disunited and self-interested principalities, about a sovereign who first placed on himself the crown of the Tsar of All Russia, about one of the most complex, powerful and contradictory personalities - about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, who went down in history under the name Terrible.

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1945)
The film is dedicated to the theme of strengthening autocracy. Achieving such power through deceit and cruelty doomed Ivan to loneliness and doubt - this is the tragic ending of the struggle for power. The struggle of Ivan the Terrible with the boyars who organized a conspiracy to kill the Tsar. The conspirators were led by the Tsar’s aunt Efrosinya Staritskaya, who dreamed of elevating her son Vladimir to the throne.