The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)

The Twelve Chairs
Based onThe Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov
Written byMark Zakharov
Evgeny Schwartz
Directed byMark Zakharov
StarringAndrei Mironov
Georgy Vitsin
Anatoli Papanov
Aleksandr Abdulov
Tatyana Pelttser
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
ComposerGennady Gladkov
Country of originSoviet Union
Original languageRussian
Production
CinematographyVladimir Osherov
Georgi Rerberg
Dmitri Surensky
EditorsT. Aksyonova
Nina Osipova
Original release
Release1976 (1976)
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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.

  1. ^ ВокругТВ. Бендер на экране и в жизни
  2. ^ 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