خلاصه داستان : ک فیلم تاریخی که روایت دو سال از زندگی تزار ایوان مخوف، رابطه او با متروپولیت فلیپ مسکو و وقایع دوران اوپریچنینا را به تصویر می‌کشد.

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia

خلاصه داستان : جایی در شمال روسیه، در یک صومعه کوچک ارتدوکس روسی، مردی غیرعادی زندگی می‌کند که رفتار عجیبش راهبان همکارش را گیج می‌کند، در حالی که دیگرانی که از جزیره دیدن می‌کنند، معتقدند که این مرد قدرت شفا دادن، جن‌گیری شیاطین و پیش‌گویی آینده را دارد...

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.