Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation

Ivan Vasilievich Menyaet Professiyu

Soviet Union

1973

93 Min

Color

Russian

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Vladlen Bakhnov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Leonid Gaidai

DP Vitali Abramov, Sergei Poluyanov

CAST Aleksandr Demyanenko, Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Saveli Kramarov, Natalya Seleznyova, Vladimir Etush, Mikhail Pugovkin

Absent-minded inventor Shurik (Alexander Demyanenko) has built a time machine in his Moscow apartment. Due to the machine’s malfunctioning, his apartment complex manager Ivan Vasilievich (Yuri Yakovlev) and a suave burglar (Leonid Kuravlev) are transposed back to the times of Ivan the Terrible, while the dreaded Czar himself (also played by Yakovlev) turns up in modern-day Moscow. Since Ivan Vasilievich and his royal namesake look alike, various funny complications arise, and Shurik desperately tries to return things back to normal. This Soviet sci-fi comedy is loosely based on the play Ivan Vasilievich by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Director

Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Iovich Gaidai (30 January 1923, Svobodny, Amur Oblast – 19 November 1993, Moscow) was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR & modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.