Pavel Lungin's movie Tsar, about Ivan the Terrible, premiered in Moscow last week. The comparison in everyone's mind is to Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, widely interpreted as a vision of Stalinism; Lungin has described his film as "a metaphor for Russia past and present". Review (Screen Daily):

...the tone of The Tsar grows increasingly overwrought. One moment armies are engaged in mortal combat, the next the Tsar is being carried aloft through white clouds of Spring blossom. That may very well reflect the reality of 16th century Russia but it makes for an indigestible narrative.