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Staging and Performance in IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART 2

Staging and Performance in IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART 2

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Professor David Bordwell explores the “expressive movement” that animates one of Sergei Eisenstein’s boldest experiments in film form, demonstrating how the director draws on the language of dance and painting.

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    Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • 1958 • Soviet Union
    Starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov

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