The Tsar's Bride
Cast & Crew
Vladimir Gorikker
Raisa Nedashkovskaya
Natalya Rudnaya
Otar Koberidze
G. Shevtsov
V. Zeldin
Film Details
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Synopsis
Marfa, a Russian girl of noble birth, is to be forced to marry Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Ivan's friend and bodyguard Gryaznoy, a man of wild and passionate nature, also loves Marfa. To captivate her, he persuades a German physician to prepare a love potion. Lyubasha, Gryaznoy's mistress, overhears his plan and substitutes poison for the philter. At the feast where Ivan is to announce his betrothal, Marfa drinks the poison and, dying, goes mad. When Ivan enters the hall, the remorseful Gryaznoy reveals that he has given Marfa a potion and is seized by the guards, whereupon Lyubasha confesses to the poisoning. Gryaznoy stabs her and then is led away to die.
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Director
Vladimir Gorikker
Cast
Raisa Nedashkovskaya
Natalya Rudnaya
Otar Koberidze
G. Shevtsov
V. Zeldin
Nikolay Timofeyev
Viktor Nuzhnyy
M. Maltseva
T. Loginova
Pyotr Glebov
Galina Oleynichenko
Larisa Avdeyeva
Yevgeniy Kibkalo
A. Geleva
P. Chekin
A. Vedernikov
Ye. Raykov
V. Klepatskaya
T. Tugarinova
Bolshoi Theater Chorus
Crew
E. August
G. Balodis
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra
A. Donatov
Vladimir Gorikker
Kh. Kukels
Vadim Mass
V. Shildknekht
Yevgeniy Svetlanov
Yu. Tselms
V. Zorin
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Notes
Released in the U.S.S.R. in 1965 as Tsarskaya nevesta.
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