Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
(1915)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 2 votes
Year: 1915
Runtime: 42 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Александр Иванов-Гай
Cast: Feodor Chaliapin Sr., Volk-Krachkovskaya, Николай Салтыков, Glafira Chernova, E. Korsak, Vladimir Bazilevskiy, Richard Boleslawski, Борис Сушкевич, Михаил Жаров, Владимир Карин
Plot
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appreciate his acting. Another curiosity is that the film also included a minor role enacted by Richard Boleslavsky, who in 1932 directed “Rasputin and the Empress.”(9)