The Twelve Chairs (1971 film)
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| Directed by | Leonid Gaidai |
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| Based on | The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov |
| Starring | Archil Gomiashvili Sergey Filippov Mikhail Pugovkin Natalya Krachkovskaya |
| Narrated by | Rostislav Plyatt |
| Cinematography | Sergei Poluyanov Valery Shuvalov |
| Music by | Aleksandr Zatsepin |
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Running time | 159 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев, romanized: 12 stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[1] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs.
Cast[]
- Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender (voiced by Yuri Sarantsev; singing voice by Valeri Zolotukhin; in some scenes speaks with his own voice)
- Sergey Filippov as Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as Madame Gritsatsuyeva
- Igor Yasulovich as Ernest Shchukin, engineer
- Natalya Vorobyova as Ellochka Shchukina, Ernest Shchukin's wife
- Klara Rumyanova as Katerina Aleksandrovna, Father Fyodor's wife
- Natalya Varley as Liza (voiced by Nadezhda Rumyantseva)
- Georgy Vitsin as fitter Mechnikov
- Savely Kramarov as one-eyed chess player
- Radner Muratov as first chess player
- Viktor Pavlov as Kolya, Liza's husband
- Gotlib Roninson as chairman Kislyarsky
- Roman Filippov as poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
- Grigory Shpigel as Aleksandr Yakovlevich
- Yuri Nikulin as janitor Tikhon
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Vladimir Etush as Andrei Bruns
- Nina Grebeshkova as Musik, Bruns' wife
- Alexander Khvylya as Vakkhanyuk
- Nina Agapova as soloist of theater "Kolumb"
- Rina Zelyonaya as editor of youth problem magazine "Groom and Bride"
- Irina Murzaeva as guide of furniture craftsmanship museum
- Erast Garin as theater critic
- Leonid Gaidai as Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)
- Rostislav Plyatt as Narrator (uncredited)
- Stanislav Sadalsky as fireman in theater "Kolumb" (uncredited)
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