Twelve Chairs aka 12 Stulyev (1971)RUSSIAN.ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Comedy | russia | con artist | ussr | digit in title | soviet union

Storyline

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His
mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve
chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender
start a long search for the diamonds. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii


A nice treasure hunt
29 February 2008 | by Alex Kvaskov (Canada)

Gaidai's adaption of Ilf and Petrov's book is better than the 1977 version. Mironov is a
good actor, but Archil Gomashvilli is better, though it is not his voice in the movie.
Gaidai disliked his voice and asked another actor to do Gomashvilli's lines. That was met
with great protest from Gomashvilli and they fought with Gaidai, thus starting a many year
mute dispute. Pugovkin (father Fyodor) is also interesting in this role as the "compition"
as Ostap calls him. This film is a must-see as here Gaidai once again shows off his talent
for light comedy. And by the way, did you know that Karapeinikov (the person from whom Ostap
bought the orders for the chairs) is actually Gaidai himself! Almost all Soviet viewers did
not know and many still are not aware of this, that it is Gaidai himself there. A great movie!

film language is russian with romanian subtitle embedded