«Страшное кино» о «психологии власти». О фильме «Царь» — его создатели
“Terrible film” about “psychology of power”. Creators of the film about it`s meaning

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the film “The Tsar” created by P. S. Lungin. The author of the article gives an analysis of the meanings of the director and actors about the film and images of characters, such as Ivan the Terrible, Metropolitan Philip, Maria Temryukovna. “The Tsar” is a religio-philosophical historical drama. It`s protagonists, Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Philip were greats and controversial persons related to the Renaissance. According to the meanings of P. S. Lungin and P. N. Mamonov, Ivan the Terrible, from the one side, was a cruel and ambitious of power ruler, but, from the other, was an idealistic scribe, who was waiting the Last Judgment with a trembling. He imagined himself as a God and judged and beheaded “traitors” and “heretics” as Jesus, to enter paradise only with the Russian righteous people. Metropolitan Philip was a naive and kind abbot of the Solovetsky monastery. In the period of Oprichnina, he appeared in Moscow and became a fighter against evil and despotism. The eschatological fight between good and evil ended in defeat of Ivan the Terrible and with victory of moral purity, spirituality, which were identified with Metropolitan Philip. This meaning of the film was misrepresented by adherents of the cult of Ivan the Terrible.

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