

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973-09-17 · 88 min · ★ 7.9
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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- Directors
- Leonid Gaidai
- Production companies
- Mosfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Aleksandr DemyanenkoAleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Yuriy YakovlevIvan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid KuravlyovZhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely KramarovFeofan the diak
Natalya SeleznyovaZinaida, Shurik's wife
Natalya KrachkovskayaUliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife
Natalya KustinskayaYakin's mistress
Vladimir EtushAnton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist
Mikhail Pugovkinfilm director Yakin
Sergei Filippovswedish ambassador
Eduard Bredunradio goods speculator
Aleksandr Vigdorovarcher
Valentin Grachyovarcher
Natalya Gurzodental nurse
Ivan Zhevagodoctor
Anatoliy Kalabulinarcher
Nina MaslovaMarfa Vasilyevna
Anatoliy Podshivalovpolice lieutenant
Viktor Uralskypolice sergeant major
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