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idohistorysometimes · 4 months

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Stalin: this film needs to be historical

Also Stalin: you can't just use historical documents as the basis of your film what the fuck is wrong with you

#history #ivan the terrible #ivan the terrible 1944 #joseph stalin #soviet film #shitpost

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crazy-meringue · 1 month

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"Come on, fix my life"

(choose who you like best or take them all hehe)

#иван грозный #федор басманов #ivan the terrible #fyodor basmanov #fedor basmanov #иван iv #ivan iv #царь иван грозный #царь иван грозный 1991 #иван грозный 1944 #опричнина #oprichnina #russian history memes

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knchr · 11 months

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セルゲイ・エイゼンシュテイン / イワン雷帝 Blu-ray（2Kレストア）

#have #blu-ray #sergei eisenstein #ivan the terrible #1944 #1946 #2023

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iamhumanityy · 1 year

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Mikhail Kuznetsov in Ivan the Terrible (1944)

#Ivan the terrible #Иван Грозный #1940s #1944

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jasonsutekh · 1 year

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Ivan the Terrible Part 1 (1944) and 2 (1958)

The Russian Czar who united the nation fights against the boyars and landowners to control the country by any means.

The political intrigue is the main focus of the film and some of it is interesting, mainly the betrayals from all the title character’s closest allies and the underhand ways they all try to undermine each other. It’s a fairly traditional story but amusing enough to follow. The war scenes were particularly impressive thanks to the large number of extras.

There are some scenes where it makes it feel like the Russian language is long-winded or repetitive but this is probably more the result of bureaucratic representation; if so it’s realistic. Another aspect that was a little more prominent than it needed to be was the constant glaring, at points it felt like half the communication was done in giving the evil eye.

Much of the aesthetic aspects were engaging and entertaining. The background imagery was complex at times and added to the subtext on occasion, the use of shadows made some scenes feel larger and combined the background with the foreground, the colour scenes were particularly unusual but worked very well both for the connotations and basic amusement due to the intricate dancing.

At several points it became apparent that the propaganda was going to be incredibly unsubtle, there was even children in the second one openly calling him out in song. It was originally supposed to be a trilogy but production was interrupted by actual political intrigue, ironically. The second part was delayed so long because Stalin felt the criticism of Ivan was veiled criticism of his own despotic nature, so the release had to wait for his death.

Ivan the Terrible Part 1: 3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

Ivan the Terrible Part 2: 4/10 -It’s below average, but only just!-

-When the second part was confiscated the third ceased production, the script, set designs, and some film fragments still exist.

-The stock used for the colour scenes was captured in Soviet occupied Germany.

-Filming for the second part was completed in 1949 and release delayed until 1958.

#Film #Review #Ivan the Terrible #Ivan the Terrible Part 1 #Ivan the Terrible Part 2 #1944 #1958 #Russian #World Cinema #JasonSutekh

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amatesura · 1 year

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Ivan the Terrible / Иван Грозный (1944) | dir. Sergei Eisenstein

#ivan the terrible #Иван Грозный #sergei eisenstein #filmedit #filmgifs #candles #candle gif #*

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nynevefromthelake · 1 year

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Diptychs illustrations for “Ivan the Terrible” (1944) by Sergei Eisenstein

#art #history #history art #16 century #Film #perioddrama #ivan the terrible #sergei eisenstein #fyodor basmanov #dark art #illustration

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lisystrata · 1 year

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Collage of fragments of different films. Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible in the "Das Wachsfigurenkabinett" (1924) directed by Paul Leni, and Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov, oprichnik, in the film "Ivan the Terrible" / "Иван Грозный" (1944) directed by Sergei Eisenstein. In my opinion, they look really cool together.

Sergei Eisenstein (with all the soviet passion) scolded German film expressionism, however, in "Ivan the Terrible" he tried to match the methods of directors of the Weimar era and even looked for an actor for the role of Basmanov, most likely on the young Conrad, who was the personification of expressionism in 1920.

#conrad veidt #mikhail kuznetsov #ivan the terrible #fyodor basmanov #oprichnik #sergei eisenstein #paul leni #das wachsfigurenkabinett #das wachsfigurenkabinett 1924

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milkyway-ashes · 9 months

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yooo ✨

I've made icons of Fyodor Basmanov and Ivan the Terrible from the movie Ivan the Terrible (1944) to use as matching pfps :3

pls like or reblog if you use <3

#i'm so sorry for all my mutuals who followed me for prog content and are suddenly seeing all these ivan the terrible stuff #ivan the terrible #fyodor basmanov #nikolay cherkasov #mikhail kuznetsov #sergei eisenstein #Иван Грозный #Фёдор Басманов #Николай Черкасов #Михаил Кузнецов #Сергей Эйзенштейн #russian movies #soviet movies

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jarenka · 2 months

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Couple of weeks ago I watched Boris Godunov in our local opera house.

I don't remember if I've already told you that, but I has zero education in music, I don't understand musical theory and my knowledge of musical history is scattered at best. For last couple of years I've learned a bit about musical history, but I still isn't able to tell apart baroque music from music of classical period.

Why I am telling you about it? Because I've heard Mussorgsky before (and I heard about him of course, but only super basic things) but I don't have any time scale in my mind to put him on. I've never seen Boris Godunov in opera house before, for me it was one of these classical Russian operas on a historical topic: A Life for the Tsar, Prince Igor, The Tsar's Bride, etc.

So, I was sitting in opera house reading theater program. Mussorgsky was born in 1839, he finished Boris Godunov in 1869. It's something near Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake was written in 1876), but Tchaikovsky followed European music trends of his time and Mussorgsky was from different circle of composers Mighty Handful. They tried to invent distinct Russian style of classical music, collected and studied folk songs and Orthodox church singing and incorporated them in their music (this wasn't in the program, I just know a bit about this group).

And then during the opera I was like: "Why the fuck this 19th century opera was bitten by Stravinsky????", that doesn't sound like a 19th century opera at all (later I found out that Mussorgsky's peers (including Tchaikovsky) didn't understand Boris Godunov at all, they mostly called its music terrible).

What I mean by "was bitten by Stravinsky":

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Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov, Coronation scene performed by Royal Opera

Some other examples and comparisons (and Ivan the Terrible's lover) are under the cut

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Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov, Varlaam's Song performed by Daniil Akimov (bass) and Alina Smirnova (piano)

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Excerpt from The Rites of Spring by Igor Stravinsky

Varlaam's Song was the most obvious example (but I've wrongly attributed it as "Stravinsky vibe", see below) because right before it there was another "folk" song, the innkeeper's song:

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(scene from 1954 Boris Godunov film, sings Alexandra Torchina)

It's a typical "folk" song from Russian opera:

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Sadko's song from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko opera (performed by Vladimir Atlantov)

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or this choir from Eugene Onegin (performed by all-women choir "Pearl")

Varlaam's song is completely different. And I'm sure I've already heard something like it written in 20th century.

This?

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Igor Stravinsky - Infernal Dance from The Firebird performed by London Symphony Orchestra.

No, I've heard something even more similar. And I have no idea why it took me so long.

It's Oprichniks dance scene from Ivan the Terrible movie:

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The staple of Russian queer culture with a twink Fyodor Basmanov in woman's dress.

(the liking even more obvious when you compare it to the orchestral version of Varlaam's Song)

Stravinsky wrote his Firebird in 1910, Sergei Prokofiev wrote music for Sergei Eisenstein's film Ivan the Terrible in 1944, and Mussorgsky was writing his works in the middle of 19th century. He died at the age of 42 in 1881, long before avant-garde music became a thing, surrounded by people who thought that he can't write music like a normal composer. No, he just wrote like a 20th century composer.

And some other works by Mussorgsky:

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Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by Maurice Ravel) performed by St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

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Modest Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death performed by Polina Shamaeva and Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra Zou can found poems in English translation from this cycle here. Yes, they are about different ways to die.

#music #Youtube

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somemissedconnections · 5 months

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Viy - Exorcizing Stalin from the USSR

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Analysis of the Movie VIY (1967), its relationship to the Soviet period it was made within, and the larger connection to cultural “hauntings.”

Films Viy (1967) - https://youtu.be/4YmQn6q36HQ?si=pXALSWAFk2nsgkAc Battleship Potempkin (1925) - https://youtu.be/a_bkBbrdyyw?si=GlCul4L4lJic2HGh R.U.R. or Loss of Sensation (1935) - https://youtu.be/6GiBhKbYBcU?si=Htz04rluAz_62Cr5 Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944) - https://youtu.be/ZYOxxp_EVxc?si=UcxqaqLNUVAjAmMN Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1945*) - https://youtu.be/vnNgoS8VsoQ?si=qzxX2M_70UhUmy30 Solaris (1972) - https://youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE?si=H2IRMIGTD-MD6RS4

Texts: Nikolai Gogol - Viy (1835) - https://cafeliterarioba.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/viy-by-nikolai-gogol-cafc3a9-literario.pdf The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 - https://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/theory/1930code.pdf Nikita Krushchev - The Secret Speech - https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm Mark Fisher - Conspicuous force and Verminisation - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008166.html

Additional Resources: Alexander Herbert – Fear before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/fear-before-fall-horror-films-late-soviet-union Horror Vanguard – 251 – Viy with Alexander Herbert! https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/251-viy-with-alexander-herbert Behind the Bastards – The Childhood of Joseph Stalin https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-childhood-of-joseph-stalin-57114487/ Mark Fisher – What is Hauntology? - https://memoirsoftheblind.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/hauntology.pdf

Buzzer and Bell Sound Effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

#viy #viy 1967 #nikolai gogol #soviet cinema #horror #hauntology #witches #exorcism #ussr #Youtube

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crazy-meringue · 26 days

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