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title: "Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot: cast and crew"
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# Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958): cast and crew

18 cast and 15 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Nikolay Cherkasov](https://film.one/person/nikolai-cherkasov.md) as Czar Ivan IV
- [Serafima Birman](https://film.one/person/serafima-birman.md) as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
- [Pavel Kadochnikov](https://film.one/person/pavel-kadochnikov.md) as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
- [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
- [Vsevolod Pudovkin](https://film.one/person/vsevolod-pudovkin.md) as Nikolay the Fanatic
- [Mikhail Kuznetsov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-kuznetsov.md) as Fyodor Basmanov
- [Alexander Mgebrov](https://film.one/person/alexander-mgebrov.md) as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
- [Andrei Abrikosov](https://film.one/person/andrei-abrikosov.md) as Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
- [Vladimir Balashov](https://film.one/person/vladimir-balashov.md) as Pyotr Volynets
- [Erik Pyryev](https://film.one/person/erik-pyryev.md) as Ivan IV as a boy
- [Mikhail Nazvanov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-nazvanov.md) as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
- Pavel Massalsky as King Sigismund of Poland
- Ada Vojtsik as Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
- Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger (uncredited)
- Sergey Stolyarov as (uncredited)
- Semyon Timoshenko as Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)
- Evgenia Bagorskaya as Lady from Sigismund's court

## 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

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

## Editing

- [Esfir Tobak](https://film.one/person/esfir-tobak.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

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

## Costume and make-up

- Vasili Goryunov: Makeup Artist
- [M. Safonova](https://film.one/person/m-safonova.md): Costume Design
- [Leonid Naumov](https://film.one/person/leonid-naumov.md): Costume Design

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