[Eisenstein, Sergei, director].

Ivan the Terrible [1944].

1958. [San Francisco]: Larry Jordan, [c. 1958?].

Oblong 12mo, with a b/w frontispiece drawing b Eisenstein and 31 b/w photographs of scenes from the film. Original buff printed wrappers, browned and with the bottom wrapper trimmed below the imprint (possibly removing an inscription or mark of ownership).

§ Limited to 100 copies printed in San Francisco by Larry Jordan, born in 1936 and a renowned California experimental filmmaker using animation. His most famous film is "[Our Lady of the Sphere], an experimental film that features ambiguous characters (a boy, a deep-sea diver and a mystical lady with an orbital head) on a surrealist dream-like journey full of various imagery through juxtaposed with symbols and images from themes such as antiquity to the space age, accompanied by alternating backgrounds, before the film ends in a garden."

Ivan the Terrible (1944) was a two-part biopic of Ivan IV of Russia starring Nikolay Cherkasov. It was Eisenstein's final film and was said to have been commissioned by Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified with Ivan. Part 1 was released in 1944, Part 2 was to have been released in 1946 however Stalin was so displeased by the depiction of Ivan that he banned the film and it did not appear until 1958, years after Stalin's death.

Part I has the uncommon accolade of have been included in both The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Medved and Lowell and Scheider's 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Item #124944

Price: $695.00