ComedyScience Fiction
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
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.
Directed by Leonid Gaidai, Arkadiy Ashkinazi
79
User score
414 votes
Status
Released
Released
September 17, 1973
Runtime
1h 28m
Language
Russian
Top cast
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
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
Mikhail Pugovkin
film director Yakin
Sergei Filippov
swedish ambassador
Eduard Bredun
radio goods speculator
Aleksandr Vigdorov
archer
Valentin Grachyov
archer
Natalya Gurzo
dental nurse
Ivan Zhevago
doctor
Anatoliy Kalabulin
archer
Nina Maslova
Marfa Vasilyevna
Anatoliy Podshivalov
police lieutenant
Viktor Uralsky
police sergeant major
Viktor Shulgin
boyar
