| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Yuriy Yakovlev | ... | Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha / Czar Ivan The Terrible | |
| Leonid Kuravlyov | ... | George Miloslavsky | |
| Aleksandr Demyanenko | ... | Shurik | |
| Saveliy Kramarov | ... | Feofan | |
| Natalya Seleznyova | ... | Zinaida Mikhaylovna Timofeyeva | |
| Natalya Krachkovskaya | ... | Ulyana Andreyevna (as Natalya Belogortseva-Krachkovskaya) | |
| Natalya Kustinskaya | ... | Yakin's Lover | |
| Vladimir Etush | ... | Anton Semyonovich Shpak | |
| Mikhail Pugovkin | ... | Karp Savelyevich Yakin | |
| Sergey Filippov | ... | Swedish Ambassador | |
| Eduard Bredun | ... | Trader of Radio Components (as E. Bredun) | |
| Aleksandr Vigdorov | ... | Strelets (as A. Vigdorov) | |
| Valentin Grachyov | ... | Strelets (as V. Grachyov) | |
| Natalya Gurzo | ... | Nurse (as N. Gurzo) | |
| Ivan Zhevago | ... | Doctor (as I. Zhevago) | |
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 the 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973. Written by Dmitry Zharkov <dmitry@pharm.sunysb.edu>
Hi!
As the title of the comment points this is one of the best Soviet comedies ever filmed. And that's is the reason for many people from other countries of the world not to get it's meaning. I would say that even modern day Russians - who have never lived in The Soviet Union, who have no idea what Iron Curtain or Warsaw Treaty Organization is will never understand and enjoy it in full. But anyone who is acquainted with Soviet reality will vote 10 of 10 - I am sure. So do not blame Americans or peoples from other countries for not getting Soviet comedies (those were great; and modern day Russian comedies is pure crap - I am sorry) - they were so very oriented to our former reality that are hard to get in modern days. My score is 20 of 10.