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# Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944): cast and crew

23 cast and 14 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Nikolay Cherkasov](https://film.one/person/nikolai-cherkasov.md) as Czar Ivan IV
- [Lyudmila Tselikovskaya](https://film.one/person/lyudmila-tselikovskaya.md) as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
- [Serafima Birman](https://film.one/person/serafima-birman.md) as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
- [Mikhail Nazvanov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-nazvanov.md) as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
- [Mikhail Zharov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-zharov.md) as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
- [Amvrosii Buchma](https://film.one/person/amvrosii-buchma.md) as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
- [Mikhail Kuznetsov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-kuznetsov.md) as Fyodor Basmanov
- [Pavel Kadochnikov](https://film.one/person/pavel-kadochnikov.md) as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
- [Andrei Abrikosov](https://film.one/person/andrei-abrikosov.md) as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
- [Alexander Mgebrov](https://film.one/person/alexander-mgebrov.md) as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
- [Maxim Mikhaylov](https://film.one/person/maxim-mikhaylov.md) as Archdeacon
- [Vladimir Balashov](https://film.one/person/vladimir-balashov.md) as Piotr Volynetz
- [Vsevolod Pudovkin](https://film.one/person/vsevolod-pudovkin.md) as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
- Semyon Timoshenko as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador
- Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger
- Pavel Massalsky as Sigismond, King of Poland
- Valentina Kuznetsova as Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)
- Sergey Stolyarov as (uncredited)
- Anel Sudakevich as Sigismond's court lady
- Lidiya Naumova
- Boris Feodosyev as Boyar
- Vladimir Uralskiy as Archbishop
- Irina Volodko as Sigismund's Court Lady

## Directing

- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md): Director

## Writing

- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md): Writer

## Production

- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Andrey Moskvin](https://film.one/person/andrey-moskvin.md): Director of Photography
- [Eduard Tisse](https://film.one/person/eduard-tisse.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Sergei Prokofiev](https://film.one/person/sergei-prokofiev.md): Original Music Composer
- Vladimir Bogdankevich: Sound Director
- Boris Volsky: Sound Director

## Art

- [Iosif Shpinel](https://film.one/person/yosyp-shpinel.md): Production Design
- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md): Art Direction

## Costume and make-up

- [Nadezhda Buzina](https://film.one/person/nadezhda-buzina.md): Costume Design
- Vasili Goryunov: Makeup Artist
- [Leonid Naumov](https://film.one/person/leonid-naumov.md): Costume Design

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