Ivan the Terrible, Reivew on Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Sergei Eisenstein's later arranged political films, as the first Russian tsar, the model of the unification of the motherland by the iron-blooded rule is the political subtext that Stalin wants to use for propaganda, Eisenstein in the first work. In general, he completed the mission relatively well, made a strong criticism of the corruption of the nobles and the bullying of the foreign powers, and laid a foreshadowing of the cruelty and darkness of Ivan IV's character in addition to being tough and cold. The more successful ones in the film are the large number of facial close-ups, the unique application of light and shadow, the gorgeous setting of the royal family and the facialized character design, all of which have left a deep impression.

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