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Oct 28, 1970 · 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 Russian Revolution. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this 1970 comedy film.
- (7.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mel Brooks
- 1970-10-28
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 (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.
- Ilf and Petrov
- 1928
Comedy based on the novel of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Pussy" Vorobyaninov, a ...
- 159 min
- 531.7K
- Mosfilm
Fields would have loved this movie. But Brooks is not content with mere cynicism, or with the simple Fields hostility. He goes beyond comedy this time, and he gets all the way to the pathos. And so while "The Producers" was hilarious, yes, "The Twelve Chairs" is a more fully realized work because it uses comedy not just for laughs but as a tool ...
The Twelve Chairs. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, erstwhile count Ippolit Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) has been reduced to being a simple clerk. But, before his mother-in-law dies, she ...
- (15)
- Comedy
- G
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Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Before The RevolutionOpening by writer, director and co-star Mel Brooks, Branka Veselinovic as a post-revolutionary Russian aristocrat on her death bed, sending for her foppish son-in-law (Ron Moody) and her nutty orthodox priest (Dom DeLuise), shooting on location in then-Yugoslavia, in The Twelve ...
