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Tsar (2009)

Tsar (2009)

Drama History
Release Date: 2009, November 4
Directors: Pavel Lungin
Countries: Russia
Production: Studio Pavla Lungina, Profit
Cast: Oleg Yankovskiy, Sergey Garmash, Aleksey Makarov, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Anvar Khalilulaev, Ville Haapasalo, Ivan Okhlobystin, Alexandr Domogarov, Aleksandr Ilyin Jr, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksey Frandetti, Ramilya Iskander

Overview:

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia