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The Twelve Chairs (other)
'' The Twelve Chairs'' is a 1928 satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. The Twelve Chairs may also refer to: Film * ''Dvanáct křesel'', 1933, directed by Martin Fric and Michal Waszynski (Czechoslovakia, Poland) * ''Keep Your Seats, Please'', 1936 UK musical comedy film starring George Formby and Florence Desmond * ''It's in the Bag!'' (1945 film), 1945 US film starring Fred Allen and Jack Benny * ''Sju svarta be-hå'', 1954, Sweden, directed by Gösta Bernhard * ', 1957, Germany, directed by Franz Antel * '' Las doce sillas'', 1962 Cuban film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea * ''The Thirteen Chairs'', 1969, Italy/France, directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani * ''The Twelve Chairs'' (1970 film), US film directed by Mel Brooks * ''The Twelve Chairs'' (1971 film), Russian film directed by Leonid Gaidai * ''The Twelve Chairs'' (1976 film), 1976 Russian miniseries directed by Mark Zakharov * '' Mein Opa und die 13 Stuhle'', 1997, Germany, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Chairs
''The Twelve Chairs'' ( rus, Двенадцать стульев, Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical novel by the Odesan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931. The novel has been adapted to other media, primarily film. Plot In the Soviet Union in 1927, a former Marshal of Nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, works as the registrar of marriages and deaths in a sleepy provincial town. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewellery was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, were taken away by the Communists after the Russian Revolution. Vorobyaninov wants to find the treasure. The “smooth operator” and con-man Ostap Bender forces Kisa to become his partner, as they set out to find the chairs. Bender's street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Chairs (1976 Film)
'' 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. It is the second full length adaptation of the novel in the Soviet Union (the first was directed by Leonid GaidaiThe 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) and is the sixth one in the world. Plot The film takes place in 1927 from April to October in the Soviet cities of Stargorod, Moscow, Vasyuki, Pyatigorsk, Vladikavkaz, Tbilisi, and Yalta. The quiet life of registrar Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov is rocked by the sudden death of his mother-in-law Claudia Ivanovna, who admits that she sewed her diamonds into the seat of one of the twelve chairs belonging to their former living room set in order to hide it fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Sedia Della Felicità
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Esmael Barari
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The Twelve Seats
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Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger (born 6 June 1942) is a German filmmaker and photographer. Early life From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter. Her mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ulrich Ottinger, was a painter. From 1962 to 1968, Ottinger worked as a freelance artist in Paris and studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender among other studies. They participated in several exhibitions. Film career The films of Ottinger have been said to "reject or parody the conventions of art cinema and search for new ways to construct visual pleasure, creating various spectator positions usually neglected or marginalized by cinematic address". Her films include strong elements of stylization and fantasy, as well as ethnographic explorations. In 1966 she wrote her first screenplay, entitled ''Die Mongolische Doppelschublade''. Ottinger returned to West Germany in 1969 and, in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Kon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Lohner
Helmuth Lohner (24 April 1933 – 23 June 2015) was an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 1997 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt. Early life Born in Vienna, Lohner initially trained as a commercial artist, while also taking private acting lessons. He made his acting début in 1952 at the municipal theatre in Baden bei Wien. He also appeared as operetta buffo at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. From 1953 to 1963 he appeared in various productions of the Theater in der Josefstadt, as well as making numerous film appearances. Career Further engagements in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Zurich followed. Between them he appeared at the Burgtheater, and at the Salzburg Festival several times, taking the roles of "Death", "The Devil" and "Jedermann" in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play '' Jedermann'' (which by tradition is performed every year). He made his film debut in 1955 in Josef von Báky's ''Hotel Adlon''. From 1963 he was active in television as actor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mein Opa Und Die 13 Stuhle
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The Twelve Chairs (1971 Film)
''The Twelve Chairs'' (russian: 12 стульев, Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel ''The Twelve Chairs''. Plot Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, a Marshal of Nobility who's looking for a set of 12 chairs that belonged to his mother-in-law, who on her deathbed confesses of hiding diamonds in one of them. However, the confession is overheard by Father Fyodor, who is also looking for them. Ostap and Kisa decide to go on the search together, traveling all around Russia and having a series of misadventures. Cast * Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender (voiced by Yuri Sarantsev; singing voice by Valeri Zolotukhin; in some scenes speaks in his own voice) * Sergey Filippov as Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov * Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor, priest * Natalya Krachkovskaya as Madame Gritsatsuyeva * Igor Yasulovich as Ernest Shchukin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dvanáct Křesel
''The Twelve Chairs'' ( cs, Dvanáct křesel; pl, Dwanaście krzeseł) is a 1933 Czechoslovak-Polish comedy film directed by Martin Frič and Michał Waszyński freely based on the eponymous 1928 novel by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Cast *Vlasta Burian ... Ferdinand Šuplátko *Adolf Dymsza ... antiquary Wladyslaw Kepka *Zula Pogorzelska ... director of the orphanage *Zofia Jaroszewska ... employee of the orphanage *Wiktor Biegański ... professor - spiritist * Stanisław Belski ... owner of the furniture shop *Wanda Jarszewska * Lo Kittay *Józef Kondrat ... chauffeur *Eugeniusz Koszutski ... clerk Repecki * Aniela Miszczykówna ... dentist * Hanna Parysiewicz * Stefan Szczuka ... auctioneer *Helena Zarembina Helena Zarembina (1895–1960) was a Polish actress. Selected filmography *'' Zabawka'' (1933) *'' Kocha, lubi, szanuje'' (1934) *''Wacuś'' (1935) *''Antek policmajster'' (1935) *'' Nie miała baba kłopotu'' (1935) *''ABC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Chairs (1970 Film)
''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 was one of at least 18 film adaptations of the Russian 1928 novel ''The Twelve Chairs'' by Ilf and Petrov. Plot In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals before dying that a fortune in jewels had been hidden from the Bolsheviks by being sewn into the seat cushion of one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. After hearing the dying woman's confession, the Russian Orthodox priest Father Fyodor, who had arrived to administer the last rites, decides to abandon the Church and attempt to steal the treasure for himself. Shortly afterwards in the town of Stargorod, where Vorobyaninov's former mansion is located, a homeless con-artist, Ostap Bender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thirteen Chairs
''The Thirteen Chairs'' (french: 12 + 1; it, Una su 13) is a 1969 comedy film directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani and starring Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman and Orson Welles, and featuring Vittorio De Sica, Terry-Thomas, Mylène Demongeot, Grégoire Aslan, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Lionel Jeffries. It is based on the 1928 satirical novel ''The Twelve Chairs'' by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, which has been adapted many times (including a 1970 version directed by Mel Brooks). Plot Mario Beretti is a young Italian-American barber who runs a barber shop in New York City located near a construction site that boasts few customers. His life reaches a turning point when he is notified of the death of his aunt living in Lavenham, England, who named him her sole heir. Mario rushes to England and learns that his inheritance consists of not much; only thirteen antique chairs that have a certain value. He sells them in order to cover his transportation costs, but soon learns f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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