 This film is currently a fragment of one scene showing Ivan  interrogating a German spy whom he suspects of being a spy but hires  for his bodyguard. Stalin ordered that the shot footage, of which  was 20 minutes, was to be destroyed since it showed, like  _Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1958)_ (qv) that Ivan was a  bloody tyrant and his methods were uncomfortably close to Stalins  own totalitarian practices. 4 minutes and 20 seconds of the scene  remain. Footage of virgin Queen Elizabeth also remain, but those  shots were not finished because there was an order not to use the  head of the Film Union in a female role.