Group of Five Publicity Photographs.
New York: Artkino Pictures, Inc., [1947]. This 1945 historical drama by legendary Soviet film director and screenwriter Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) is considered by some one of his best, though controversial and deplored by others; commissioned by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a great admirer of the infamous 16th-century Russian tsar, it was written, directed and produced by Eisenstein, with score by Sergei Prokofiev; its creation in the 1940s with World War Two raging was long and complex; "Part I" was released in Russia in 1944 to an ambivalent reception and "Part II" in 1947; in the U.S. the first part was released in 1947 and the second part not until 1958. Item #52419
Group of five 10" X 8" black-and-white glossy still scenes from the 1947 American release. Very good to near fine. Minor edgewear only. Each of these attractive scenes note "Sergei Eisenstein's 'IVAN THE TERRIBLE' Produced in the U.S.S.R. / Released by Artkino Pictures, Inc., 723 Seventh Ave., N.Y." along the blank lower margin. Three bear typed descriptions on slips tipped to the verso, reading: "The Coronation -- Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) is crowned Czar of all the Russias, in an impressive scene from Sergei Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible' which opens soon at the Stanley Theatre," another reads "Czar Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) anxiously follows the course of the battle of Kazan in an exciting scene from Sergei Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible', new Soviet film coming to the Stanley Theatre soon" and the last reads "Nikolai Cherkassov as Czar Ivan and Ludmilla Tselikovskaya as his Czarina in Sergei Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible', new Soviet film coming to the Stanley Theatre soon." A superb small collection of these seldom-seen images.
Price: $150.00