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The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Directed by Mel Brooks
“A wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels.”
Comedy · 1h 34m
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.
Cast
Ron Moody
Ippolit Vorobyaninov
Frank Langella
Ostap Bender
Dom DeLuise
Father Fyodor
Andréas Voutsinas
Nikolai Sestrin
Diana Coupland
Diana Coupland
Mel Brooks
Tikon
D
David Lander
Engineer Bruns
V
Vlada Petrić
Sevitsky
E
Elaine Garreau
Claudia Ivanovna
Robert Bernal
Curator
W
Will Stampe
Night Watchman
Bridget Brice
Young Woman
Crew
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Screenplay
- Mel Brooks
- Novel
- Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov
- Director of Photography
- Đorđe Nikolić
- Original Music Composer
- John Morris
- Editor
- Alan Heim
- Producer
- Ronald H. Gilbert, Michael Hertzberg
Details
- Release date
- 1970-10-28
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Russian, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Crossbow Productions, The Twelve Chairs Company, Universal Marion Corporation (UMC)
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Box office
- $1,806,258