Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Taste attributes: comedyscience fictionadventurefastfresh & originallightimaginarysurrealglossybig & varied
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, light sci-fi film: polished and pacy. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Taste details
Pace: fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: surreal · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
8.0 /10
TMDB · 223 votes
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What lines up
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
- Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism
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Synopsis
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
Synopsis: TMDB
Characteristics
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Details
- Genre
- Comedy
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Mosfilm
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Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.
