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TSAR
 | QFT
Thursday 29 April 7pm
£6.50- £6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Pavel Lungin / Russia / 2009 / 116 mins / Cert:15 / Print source: Rezo Films | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | 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.
Tom Stern’s cinematography, majestic in the outdoor scenes of the Russian countryside imitates the extreme camera angles and disquieting, stylized architecture of Eisenstein’s two “Ivan the Terrible” classics released in 1944 and 1958. Sergei Ivanov’s striking production design, paired with the gorgeous costumes and Yuri Krassazin’s epic score, give the film a stamp of great quality.
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