Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию) is a Soviet comedy film produced by Mosfilm in 1973.
This film is based on a play by Mikhail Bulgakov and was
one of the most attended movies in the Soviet Union in 1973 with more than 60
million tickets sold.
Cast
Plot
The movie begins in
1973 Moscow, where Engineer
Shurik (Aleksandr
Demyanenko) is working on a time machine in his
apartment. By accident, he sends Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha (Yuri Yakovlev),
superintendent of his apartment building, and George Miloslavsky (Leonid Kuravlev), a
small-time burglar, back into the time of Ivan IV. The pair is
forced to disguise themselves, with Bunsha dressing up as Ivan IV and
Miloslavsky as a knyaz
of the same name (who everybody thought was executed by the tsar). At the same
time, the real Ivan IV (also played by Yuri Yakovlev) is sent by the same
machine into Shurik's apartment, he has to deal with modern-day life while
Shurik tries to fix the machine so that everyone can be brought back to their
proper place in time. As the police (tipped off by a neighbor who was burgled
by Miloslavsky) close in on Shurik, who is frantically trying to repair the
machine, the cover of Bunsha and Miloslavsky is blown and they have to fight
off the Streltsy, who have
figured out that Bunsha is not the real Tsar. The movie ends with Bunsha,
Miloslavsky, and Ivan IV all transported back to their proper places, although
the entire thing is revealed to be a dream by Shurik. Or was it?
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