Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV
Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Nikolay the Fanatic
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov
Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
Andrei Abrikosov
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
Vladimir Balashov
Pyotr Volynets
Eric Pyryev
Ivan IV as a boy
Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky
Pavel Massalsky
King Sigismund of Poland
Ada Vojtsik
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger (uncredited)
Sergei Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Semyon Timoshenko
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Sergei Prokofiev
Original Music Composer
Sergei Eisenstein
Producer
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Yosyp Shpinel
Art Direction
Andrey Moskvin
Director of Photography
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Leonid Naumov
Costume Design
M. Safonova
Costume Design
Sergei Eisenstein
Production Design
Boris Volsky
Sound Designer
Vasili Goryunov
Makeup Artist
Vladimir Bogdankevich
Sound Designer
Yosyp Shpinel
Production Design