Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
A lighthearted time-travel comedy that mines absurdist humor from the collision between a 16th-century tyrant and modern Soviet life.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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
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