MOVIE · 1973
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
ActionAdventureComedySci-Fi93 min
A scientist’s homemade time machine tears a hole between 1973 Moscow and the court of Ivan the Terrible, sending his apartment manager and a petty burglar into the 16th century while the tsar arrives in a Soviet apartment block. Yuriy Yakovlev sits at the center of the centuries-spanning confusion, with Leonid Kuravlyov among those swept up in the mix-up. The comedy comes from mistaken identity, bureaucratic panic, and culture shock as modern apartment hallways collide with royal chambers.
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