Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy

This film was a true peculiarity a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles the fact that it was a silent film with title cards meant that audiences could only appreciate his acting Another curiosity is that the film also included a minor role enacted by Richard Boleslavsky who in 1932 directed Rasputin and the Empress9