1973 · comedy · sci-fi · russian
Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession
Directed by Leonid Gaidai1h 28m1973
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.
Our read: Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi · russian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
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