Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

1973•1h 28m•7.9/10

ComedyScience Fiction

Ratings

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7.9/10(405)

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.

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Production

Mosfilm

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor

Yuriy Yakovlev

Yuriy Yakovlev

Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha

Leonid Kuravlyov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky

Savely Kramarov

Savely Kramarov

Feofan the diak

Natalya Seleznyova

Natalya Seleznyova

Zinaida, Shurik's wife

Natalya Krachkovskaya

Natalya Krachkovskaya

Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife

Natalya Kustinskaya

Natalya Kustinskaya

Yakin's mistress

Vladimir Etush

Vladimir Etush

Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist

Mikhail Pugovkin

Mikhail Pugovkin

film director Yakin

Sergei Filippov

Sergei Filippov

swedish ambassador

Eduard Bredun

Eduard Bredun

radio goods speculator

Aleksandr Vigdorov

Aleksandr Vigdorov

archer

Valentin Grachyov

Valentin Grachyov

archer

Natalya Gurzo

Natalya Gurzo

dental nurse

Ivan Zhevago

Ivan Zhevago

doctor

Anatoliy Kalabulin

Anatoliy Kalabulin

archer

Nina Maslova

Nina Maslova

Marfa Vasilyevna

Anatoliy Podshivalov

Anatoliy Podshivalov

police lieutenant

Viktor Uralsky

Viktor Uralsky

police sergeant major

Viktor Shulgin

Viktor Shulgin

boyar

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