Layers of history are embedded in Ivan the Terrible, Part II, Sergei Eisenstein's extraordinary final film. A critique of the eponymous ruler's descent into paranoia, it was completed in 1946, shelved after review by Joseph Stalin, and then released posthumously during the post-Stalin Thaw (1958). The single reel of Sovcolor at the end of the film, made possible by the confiscation of German Agfacolor stock and equipment when the Red Army went into Berlin in 1945, heightens the film's startlingly carnivalesque conclusion. With English subtitles.