Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession
Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession
	Evseev-Zolotarevsky's film poster
Directed by	Leonid Gaidai
Screenplay by	Vladlen Bakhnov ; Leonid Gaidai
Based on	Ivan Vasilievich; by Mikhail Bulgakov
Starring	Yury Yakovlev; Leonid Kuravlyov; Aleksandr Demyanenko
Music by	Aleksandr Zatsepin
Release dates	June 1973 (U.S.); 17 September 1973 (Soviet Union);
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (Russian: Иван Васильевич меняет профессию, romanized: Ivan Vasilyevich menyaet professiyu) 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

^ For example as released on DVD by Image Entertainment in December 2002
^ Leaders of distribution Archived 10 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

[1] For example as released on DVD by Image Entertainment in December 2002

[2] Leaders of distribution Archived 10 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

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