Ivan Wassiljewitsch changes his profession

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Movie
German title Ivan Wassiljewitsch changes his profession
Original title Иван Васильевич меняет профессию
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1973
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Leonid Gaidai
script Leonid Gaidai
Wladlen Bachnow
production Mosfilm
music Alexander Sazepin
camera Vitaly Abramov ,
Sergei Polujanow
cut Klavdiya Aleyeva
occupation

Ivan Wassiljewitsch changes his job (OT: Russian Иван Васильевич меняет профессию , transcribed Ivan Wassiljewitsch menjajet professiju ) is a Soviet comedy film by Leonid Gaidai from 1973 . The film was produced by the state film company Mosfilm . It is based on the play Iwan Wassiljewitsch by Mikhail Bulgakov , but is not set in the 1930s, like the original, but in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

action

In Moscow in 1973 the absent-minded engineer Shurik Timofejew is working on a machine with which he wants to penetrate solid matter. When his machine explodes again, his wife, the actress Sina, leaves him to go to Gagra on the Black Sea with the film director Jakin . The caretaker Iwan Wassiljewitsch Bunscha puts Timofejew under pressure because his handicrafts cause the electricity to fail.

While the property manager tries to persuade him not to get a divorce, as this could "pollute" the reputation of the house, Schurik activates the machine, which then makes the wall to the neighboring apartment disappear. In the other apartment, the burglar wanted by the militia, Schorsch Miloslawski, who pretends to be a friend of the neighbor, is caught red-handed. Excited by his success, Schurik now also wants to penetrate time and space.

He opens a portal to the year 1573 (exactly 400 years before the date of the previous action), where the Tsar Ivan the Terrible is found. He thinks the three men from the future are demons and is terrified of the Timofeev's black cat. As soldiers approach, they shoot at the machine and damage it so much that the portal closes again, while the tsar remains in the present and Bunscha and Miloslawski in the past. The two men are trapped. Since Bunscha looks very similar to the Tsar (portrayed by Yuri Jakowlew in a double role ), they manage to deceive the soldiers and send everyone to war against the Tatars in order to feel safe for the time being.

Shurik has meanwhile managed to calm the tsar down and explains the situation to him. Since he needs a spare part, he leaves the tsar alone in the apartment, who then explores life in the 20th century. But then Sina comes home, who has argued with her director. As the two continue the argument in the apartment, the Tsar jumps in between. Sina realizes that this is the real Ivan the Terrible and that the machine works. To pull herself out of the affair, Jakin forgives her and drives off with him, while the tsar is discovered by the caretaker's wife, Ulyana Andreevna Bunscha, who is similar to his own wife. Bunscha, on the other hand, has met the Tsar's wife at a state banquet in the past and flirts with her. The tsar, who does not see his wife in Ulyana, threatens her and the neighbor Shpak, who was robbed. Both call the militia and a psychiatric ambulance. In the past, too, Bunscha and Miloslawski have been in distress because they sign the declaration of war with a modern ballpoint pen and so the rumor arises that the tsar is not the real one.

While Shurik tries to get his machine going again, the now desperate Tsar is arrested by the militia. When he told the militiamen that he was Tsar Ivan the Terrible, they turned him over to the psychiatrists. In the meantime, Bunscha and Miloslawski manage to return to the present after a chase with the tsarist army, where Bunscha is arrested because of his resemblance to the tsar, while Miloslawski sneaks away disguised as a doctor. When Ulyana sees the two men, she thinks herself crazy and lets the doctors take her away too. When the Tsar is lifted into the ambulance, the police recognize the wanted Miloslawski, and all officers, doctors and passers-by on the street take part in the chase. The tsar escapes and runs back to the Timofeev's apartment.

When Shurik re-opens the portal and the tsar has returned to his time, he wakes up with a bump on his head. It turns out that the last time his machine exploded, he passed out and was just dreaming it all. Happy that everything is as before and that his wife has not left him, he takes her in his arms.

Others

The film was shot in Moscow in the Mosfilm studios and in the Rostov Kremlin . The beginning and the final scene are shot in black and white to show the difference between reality and Shurik's dream world. A similar method was used in the movie The Magic Land .

The film became the most successful film of 1973 in the Soviet Union. Today, with more than 60 million cinema tickets sold, it is one of the most successful Soviet films ever.

The film opened in East German cinemas on November 1, 1974.

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