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  1. Budget. $1.5 million [2] 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 is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov . Upon its release, The Twelve Chairs was received positively by ...

  2. Oct 28, 1970 · The Twelve Chairs: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas. In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

    • (7.2K)
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Mel Brooks
    • 1970-10-28
  3. Comedy based on the novel of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Pussy" Vorobyaninov, a ...

    • 159 min
    • 513.6K
    • Mosfilm
  4. Fields would have loved this movie. But Brooks is not content with mere cynicism, or with the simple Fields hostility. He goes beyond comedy this time, and he gets all the way to the pathos. And so while "The Producers" was hilarious, yes, "The Twelve Chairs" is a more fully realized work because it uses comedy not just for laughs but as a tool ...

  5. Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Before The Revolution Opening by writer, director and co-star Mel Brooks, Branka Veselinovic as a post-revolutionary Russian aristocrat on her death bed, sending for her foppish son-in-law (Ron Moody) and her nutty orthodox priest (Dom DeLuise), shooting on location in then-Yugoslavia, in The Twelve ...

    • Mel Brooks, Peter Anderson, Bata Cengic
    • Ron Moody
  6. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, erstwhile count Ippolit Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) has been reduced to being a simple clerk. But ...

    • (15)
    • Comedy
    • G
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  8. Overview. In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution. Mel Brooks. Director, Screenplay. Ilya Ilf.