| The Twelve Chairs | |
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| Based on | The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov |
| Written by | Mark Zakharov Evgeny Schwartz |
| Directed by | Mark Zakharov |
| Starring | Andrei Mironov Georgy Vitsin Anatoli Papanov Aleksandr Abdulov Tatyana Pelttser Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina |
| Composer | Gennady Gladkov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language | Russian |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Osherov Georgi Rerberg Dmitri Surensky |
| Editors | T. Aksyonova Nina Osipova |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1976 |
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 Cruel Tango ("Жестокое танго")Ostap Bender in search of another chair. |
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев) is a 1976 four-episode musical television film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov.[1]
It is the second full length adaptation of the novel in the Soviet Union (the first was directed by Leonid Gaidai[2]) and is the sixth one in the world.
- ^ ВокругТВ. Бендер на экране и в жизни
- ^ The very first partial film adaptation in the USSR was made by Alexander Belinsky who shot the television film "The Twelve Chairs" in 1966; the film was not a full adaptation of the novel, but merely an adaptation of some chapters