Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)

Original title

Иван Васильевич меняет профессию

Directed by

Leonid Gaidai

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

16

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 410 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet inventor creates a time machine that accidentally swaps his apartment with the apartment of Ivan the Terrible. The tsar ends up in modern Moscow while the inventor and his lookalike neighbor must deal with the confusion and historical mishaps.

comedicchaoticlightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedsillynostalgicquirky

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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