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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.
May 30, 2024 · The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Ron Moody and Frank Langella, the movie is based on the 1928 Russian satirical novel of the same name written by Ilf and Petrov.
Oct 28, 1970 · 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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mel Brooks
- 1970-10-28
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.
The action takes place in Britain and involves seven chairs, not twelve. In Nazi Germany, the film Thirteen Chairs (1938) is based on the novel. However, the film does not credit the novel's authors.
- Ilf and Petrov
- 1928
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.
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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.
