Name: Ivan The Terrible
Released: 2005-10-18
Cast: Nicolas Le Riche, Eleonora Abbagnata

Question 1

What is Ivan The Terrible about?

Accepted Answer

Sergei Eisenstein's grand unfinished 1940s-50s film trilogy 'Ivan the Terrible' had elaborate incidental music by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1975 Yuri Grigorovich, for thirty years the chief choreographer of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, made a ballet on the same subject and used a conflation of Prokofiev's music from the film. It was quickly taken up by ballet companies the world over. This DVD is a film of a performance recorded live at the Opéra National de Paris in December 2003 and featuring three premier dancers of that company in the solo roles of Ivan, Anastasia and Kurbsky. The stage is filled at times with as many as eighty dancers as boyars, oprichniks (Ivan's personal police, assassins actually), maidens from whom Ivan picks his bride, and 'the Russian people.'

Question 2

Who appears in Ivan The Terrible?

Accepted Answer

Nicolas Le Riche, Eleonora Abbagnata appear in Ivan The Terrible.

Question 3

What genre is Ivan The Terrible?

Accepted Answer

See genre info on the title page.

Question 4

How long is Ivan The Terrible?

Accepted Answer

Ivan The Terrible has a runtime of 114 minutes.

Question 5

What year was Ivan The Terrible released?

Accepted Answer

Ivan The Terrible was released in 2005.