Conceived as a trilogy, Ivan the Terrible is Sergei Eisenstein's most systematic exploration of the creative possibilities of montage. Both surviving parts are operatic in tone and elaborately synchronized with an original score by Sergei Prokofiev. Shot primarily in the Alma-Ata Studios in Kazakhstan at the height of the Second World War, Eisenstein's historical epic establishes complex parallels between Russia's first tsar and Joseph Stalin. With English subtitles.