16th century. In a Russia plagued by conspiracies and riots, Ivan the Terrible firmly believes he is invested with a divine mission. He establishes an absolute power, crushing, with a cruelty beyond belief, whoever gets in his way. In this atmosphere of terror, the Head of the Church, Filipp, great scholar and close friend of Ivan, dares to stand up and denounce the mystical tyranny of the Sovereign…
2009 – 1h54 – Period Drama – Russia
With: Piotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovsky
Cannes – Un Certain Regard
Warsaw