| Twelve Chairs, The | |||||
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| Dom DeLuise | Father Fyodor | |
| Frank Langella | Ostap Bender | |
| Ron Moody | Ippolit Vorobyaninov | |
| Mel Brooks | ||
| Andréas Voutsinas | Nikolai Sestrin | |
| Diana Coupland | Madame Bruns | |
| David Lander | Engineer Bruns | |
| Vlada Petric | Sevitsky | |
| Elaine Garreau | Claudia Ivanova | |
| Robert Bernal | Curator | |
| Will Stampe | Night Watchman | |
| Bridget Brice | Young Woman | |
| Ljubomir Cipranic | ||
| Nicholas Smith | Actor in play | |
| Rada Djuricin | Actress in play | |
| Branka Veselinovic | Natasha | |
| Miodrag Veselinovic | Peasant |
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| Producer | Michael Hertzberg
Sidney Glazier |
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| Writer | Mel Brooks
Ilya Ilf Yevgeni Petrov |
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| Cinematography | Djordje Nikolic
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| Musician | John Morris
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Although the plot of The Twelve Chairs is wild enough to have been created by Mel Brooks, it's actually based on a Russian story written by two Soviet journalists, Ilya Ilf and Yevgenni Petrov, in the 1920s. Set in Russia in 1927, this much loved, hilarious Mel Brooks comedy classic is the tale of a former aristocrat (Ron Moody) who is now a clerk under the new Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother in law sewed a fortune in family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it - with an opportunist (Frank Langella), a priest (Dom DeLuise) and his former servant (Mel Brooks) all in equal pursuit. |
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