The twelve chairs = Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev / Gaumont ; Brooksfilms Limited presents a Sidney Glazier production ; a film by Mel Brooks ; a UMC Pictures-Crossbow co-production ; screenplay by Mel Brooks ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks.
When a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it--with an opportunist, a priest and his former servant all in pursuit.
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Language: | English |
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Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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Chatsworth, CA : [U.S.] :
Image Entertainment ; CBS Fox Video,
[2002], ©2002.
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Edition: | Widescreen. |
Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Variant Title: |
Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev.
12 chairs. |
Format: | Video DVD |
Summary: |
When a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it--with an opportunist, a priest and his former servant all in pursuit. |
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Note: | "Based on the novel The twelve chairs by Ilf and Petrov as translated by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie and published by Methuen & co. ltd. under the title Diamonds to sit on." Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1970. Special feature: original theatrical trailer. Videorecording. |
Call Number: | 9W8 D0001344 VideoDVD |
Credits: | Director of photography, Dorde Nikolić; film editor, Alan Heim; music composed and conducted by John Morris; theme song, "Hope for the best" by Mel Brooks. |
System Details: | DVD; Dolby digital mono. |
Cast: |
Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks. |