In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia
Pyotr Mamonov
Oleg Yankovskiy
Alexandr Domogarov
Ivan Okhlobystin
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Aleksey Makarov
Aleksandr Ilyin Jr
Ville Haapasalo
Aleksey Frandetti
Ramilya Iskander
Anastasiya Dontsova
Maxim Zamorin
Anvar Khalilulaev
Oleg Surnov
Anna Kashnikova
Gennady Makoev
Oleg Sokolov
Sergey Garmash
Alexey Ilyin
Artyom Mazunov
Yury Sokolov
Aleksandr Lobanov
Evgeniya Shevchenko
medved Stepa
Федор Старых
Elena Akimova
Gennadiy Garbuk
Mariya Markova
Svetlana Zhilenko