This is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. 880-03 "Groznyĭ t︠s︡arʹ -- grozhoe bremi︠a︡"--Container. 880-04 Petr Mamonov, Oleg I︠A︡nkovskiĭ, Aleksandr Domogarov, Ivan Okhlobystin. Title from container. Originally produced as motion picture in 2009.
Summary:
"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. ... An allegory of Stalinist Russia."--Warsaw Film Festival, on IMDb.
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