Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ivan the Terrible. Sergei Eisenstein's resplendent, rigid portrait of Russia's first Czar (TIME, April...
Admirers of Soviet cinematic exports to recently appear in this country will find "Ivan The Terrible" a characteristic product, replete with the usual recurring armies of Russian extras either besieging a Tartar castle with catapults or recovering Stalingrad with bazookas. Sergei Eisenstein, who introduced wartime American audiences to Russian military history with "Alexander Nevsky" and "Suvarov," has again probed into his country's past to come up with "Ivan The Terrible" in the process of fashioning the Duchy of Moscow into all the Russias...
...since 1929 have U.S. gallery-goers seen the work, of Ivan Městrović, Yugoslavia's great sculptor. Sponsored by the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts & Letters, the exhibition was the artist's first anywhere since 1938. Squat, bearded Městrović, 63, whose art looks back to the past, had been physically caught up in the present...
...Ivan the Terrible (Artkino) is Part I of a three-part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...
...Ivan is the story of a ruler whose passion was to extend and unify a Russia dismembered among foreign enemies and predatory boyars; of the constant writhe of intrigue against him; of how he dealt with his enemies both foreign and domestic ; and of how the man and his policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder...