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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

Movie · 1973 · 88 min

A gleefully silly time-travel farce full of slapstick, mistaken identity, and Soviet-era satire that keeps you laughing.

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1973 film by Leonid Gaidai
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Movie
Year
1973
Runtime
88 min
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • deception
  • class
  • power
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour9
Realism3
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

Details

Genres
comedy, adventure, science fiction
Directed by
Leonid Gaidai
Written by
Leonid Gaidai, Vladlen Bakhnov
Starring
Leonid Gaidai, Leonid Kuravlyov, Yury Yakovlev, Vladimir Etush, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Savely Kramarov, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Mikhail Pugovkin
Music
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Cinematography
Sergey Poluyanov
Runtime
88 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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