IVAN THE TERRIBLE: PARTS ONE AND TWO BY SERGEI EISENSTEIN; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room January 23, 2009

When:
7pm on Fri Jan 23
7pm on Sat Jan 24
2:00pm on Sun Jan 25

What:
Fri, Jan 23 & Sat, Jan 24, 7 pm; Sun, Jan 25, 2 pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE: PARTS ONE AND TWO
BY SERGEI EISENSTEIN
Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detected the portrait in the second filmwith its summary executions and secret policeand promptly banned it. (1944/1958, 184 min total running time ten minute intermission between parts, 35mm). All YBCA presented films in January are new prints of films that were previously only available in old crummy prints, if at all.

View the trailer for Ivan the Terrible here:
Who:
Film by Sergei Eisenstein

Where:
YBCA Screening Room, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Info:
415-978-2787 or ybca.org
$8 regular; $6 students, seniors, teachers & YBCA members

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