Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
- inventor
- czar / tsar / tzar
- time machine
- look-alike
- swap roles
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Yuriy Yakovlev
Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid Kuravlyov
Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely Kramarov
Feofan the diak
- Natalya Seleznyova — Zinaida, Shurik's wife
- Natalya Krachkovskaya — Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife
- Natalya Kustinskaya — Yakin's mistress
- Vladimir Etush — Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist
- Mikhail Pugovkin — film director Yakin
- Sergei Filippov — swedish ambassador
- Eduard Bredun — radio goods speculator
- Aleksandr Vigdorov — archer
- Valentin Grachyov — archer
- Natalya Gurzo — dental nurse
- Ivan Zhevago — doctor
- Directed
- Leonid Gaidai
- Written
- Vladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 419 ratings
- Studio
- Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
