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Oct 28, 1970 · The Twelve Chairs: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas. In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931.
The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov.
The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair.
Brooks' story is based on the Russian classic about a man whose mother confesses, on her deathbed, to having hidden the family fortune in the seat of one of a matched set of 12 chairs. The idea was to hide the jewels from the recently victorious revolution. But, alas, the chairs have been scattered.
But, before his mother-in-law dies, she reveals to him and local priest Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise) that the family jewels, thought lost, are hidden in one of 12 English chairs that once...
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In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution. A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia.
