Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
A bumbling Soviet inventor’s experimental time machine accidentally swaps his apartment manager, a petty thief, and the ruthless Ivan the Terrible across centuries, forcing him to race against history to restore the timeline before both eras descend into chaos.
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A scientist constructs a time machine and unintentionally transports his apartment complex manager and a small-time burglar to 16th-century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible is sent to the year 1973.
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Edited by Klavdiya AleyevaShot by Vitali AbramovScored by Aleksandr ZatsepinDesigned by Yu Fomichov
Also known as
- Iwan Wassiljewitsch wechselt den Berufde
- Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Futureen
- Iván Vasílievich cambia de profesiónes
- Ivan Vassilievitch change de professionfr
- Ivan Vasil'evič menjaet professijuit
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19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Yuriy Yakovlev
as Czar Ivan The Terrible
Leonid Kuravlyov
as George Miloslavsky
Aleksandr Demyanenko
as Shurik
Saveliy Kramarov
as Feofan
Natalya Seleznyova
as Zinaida Mikhaylovna Timofeyeva
Natalya Krachkovskaya
as Ulyana Andreyevna
Natalya Kustinskaya
as Yakin's Lover
Vladimir Etush
as Anton Semyonovich Shpak
Mikhail Pugovkin
as Karp Savelyevich Yakin
Sergey Filippov
as Swedish Ambassador
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