The Criterion Collection
Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Featuring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Alexander Abrikosov, Serafima Birman, Dmitri Orlov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vasily Novikov, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolai Arsky, Amvrosi Buchma, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail A. Kuznetsov, Vera Ivasheva, Mikhail Nazvanov, Anna Danilova, Andrei Abrikosov, Vladimir Ershov, Alexander Mgebrov, Sergei Blinnikov, Maxim Mikhailov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Vladimir Balashov, Pavel Massalsky, Erik Pyryev, Ada Voitsik
Year: 1938 | 1945 | 1946
Time: 108 | 99 | 85 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 86
Release Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
MSRP: $79.95
3 Discs
1.33:1
1.33:1
1.33:1
Russian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Russian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Russian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
Russell Merritt's multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
A reconstruction of Eisenstein
Drawings and production stills
Restoration demonstration
Insert featuring an essay by J. Hoberman
Multimedia essay on the history of Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger, director of the Center for Soviet Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Deleted scenes for Part I
Drawings and production stills for Part I
Multimedia essay on Eisenstein's visual vocabulary by Yuri Tsivian, art history professor at the University of Chicago
Insert featuring an essay by J. Hoberman