Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by Leonid Gaidai in June 1973. In the United States, the film has sometimes been sold under the title Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future. This film is based on the play Ivan Vasilievich by Mikhail Bulgakov. It was one of the most attended films in the Soviet Union in 1973, with more than 60 million tickets sold.
Evseev-Zolotarevsky's film poster
2023 postal cover of Russia dedicated to the film. Its left image shows, left to right: Yakovlev as Ivan the Terrible, Gaidai, and Kuravlyov. The right image shows Gaidai.
Leonid Kuravlyov
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Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
Kuravlyov in 1997