Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

Also known as Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions, Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation

1973 film by Leonid Gaidai

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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.

Released: 1973-09-1788 minDir: Leonid GaidaiComedy, Science Fiction

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Cast

Aleksandr Demyanenko as Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Yuriy Yakovlev as Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid Kuravlyov as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely Kramarov as Feofan the diak
Natalya Seleznyova as Zinaida, Shurik's wife
Natalya Krachkovskaya as Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife

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Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (Russian: Иван Васильевич меняет профессию, romanized: Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu) is a 1973 Soviet science fiction comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. In the United States, the film has sometimes been sold under the title Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future. This film is based on the play Ivan Vasilievich written by Mikhail Bulgakov from 1934 until 1936. It was one of the most attended films in the Soviet Union in 1973, with more than 60 million tickets sold.

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