IVAN THE TERRIBLE Deleted Scenes

Edited and narrated by Naum Kleiman, curator of Moscow’s Eisenstein Museum, this video piece combines rare footage of Eisenstein, screen and costume tests, and drawings of several deleted scenes from IVAN THE TERRIBLE. These include scenes from Part I’s Battle of Kazan sequence, as well as one from the unfinished Part III. Also included is a longer version of Part II’s prologue (a scene from Ivan’s childhood), which was originally to begin Part I.