Word: paranoiacally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...
...Part 2 -in which Ivan's purge of the boyars presents an obvious parallel to Stalin's purge of the party-that the spectator can only wonder how the director managed to escape with a mere reprimand. As Cherkassov plays him, Ivan-Stalin is a full-blown paranoiac and power maniac, and his hysterical protest that his crimes have been committed "not for myself, but for the motherland'' has the ring and the glare of madness...