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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

1973

1h 28m

7.9(423 votes)

Comedy

Science Fiction

Overview

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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Mosfilm

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

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

Creative team

Directed by: Leonid Gaidai
Written by: Vladlen Bakhnov
Leonid Gaidai

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