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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
7.9 / 10• 1973• 1h 28m•NR• Russian
ComedyScience Fiction
Storyline
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Cast & Crew
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Lead
Yuriy Yakovlev
Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid Kuravlyov
Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely Kramarov
Feofan the diak
Natalya Seleznyova
Zinaida, Shurik's wife
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife
Natalya Kustinskaya
Yakin's mistress
Vladimir Etush
Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Leonid Gaidai's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
