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.
All the old lies about the Rurikid Tsardom of Moscow plus the new ones just to make it more fun. The new ones are (1) turning Ivan, who was 35 years old in 1565 and died when he was 54, into an old toothless crazy guy, and (2) that Polotsk was TAKEN by Ivan from king Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, not LOST. The rest is a sick 500-y-o BDSM fantasy by propaganda spinners like Possevino, traitor Kurbski and some German-speaking idiots who tried to persuade the HRE emperor to attack Russia.
All the old lies about the Rurikid Tsardom of Moscow plus the new ones just to make it more fun. The new ones are (1) turning Ivan, who was 35 years old in 1565 and died when he was 54, into an old toothless crazy guy, and (2) that Polotsk was TAKEN by Ivan from king Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, not LOST. The rest is a sick 500-y-o BDSM fantasy by propaganda spinners like Possevino, traitor Kurbski and some German-speaking idiots who tried to persuade the HRE emperor to attack Russia.
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