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.
Acting
Yuriy Yakovlev's dual performance—terrifying tsar and terrified manager.
Direction
Gaidai's precise comic timing turns chaos into clockwork.
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Yuriy Yakovlev
Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid Kuravlyov
Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely Kramarov
Feofan the diak
Natalya Seleznyova
Zinaida, Shurik's wife
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife
Natalya Kustinskaya
Yakin's mistress
Vladimir Etush
Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist
Mikhail Pugovkin
film director Yakin
Sergei Filippov
swedish ambassador
Eduard Bredun
radio goods speculator
Aleksandr Vigdorov
archer
Valentin Grachyov
archer
Natalya Gurzo
dental nurse
Ivan Zhevago
doctor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's play 'Ivan Vasilievich,' which Stalin banned for mocking Soviet bureaucracy.
The film became a Soviet New Year tradition, with Ivan's 'I'm terrible!' catchphrase entering everyday speech.
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