Ivan & Maria
Project under development. Screenplay completed and ready for financing.
Russia, 1561. TSAR IVAN IV (THE TERRIBLE) is a sadistic brute. He is also a scholar, religious devotee, paranoid schizophrenic and a sex maniac. And Ivan is at war. Poland-Lithuania, his enemies to the northwest and the Crimean Tatars, his enemies to the south, threaten to dismantle the fragile empire Ivan is trying to assemble through a combination of brute force, diplomacy and marriage.
But his most dangerous enemies are Russian. Two princely clans, the Yurievs and the Staritskii maneuver against the Tsar – and each other -- to sow discord among the aristocracy and line up support for a coup. And the church, under ARCHBISHOP MAKARII, constantly interferes with Ivan
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