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.

Aleksandr Demyanenkoas Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
Yuriy Yakovlevas Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha
Leonid Kuravlyovas Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Savely Kramarovas Feofan the diak
Natalya Seleznyovaas Zinaida, Shurik's wife
Natalya Krachkovskayaas Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife
Natalya Kustinskayaas Yakin's mistress
Vladimir Etushas Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist
Mikhail Pugovkinas film director Yakin
Sergei Filippovas swedish ambassador
Sergei Poluyanov
Vitaly Abramov