The Twelve Chairs

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.

Cast

Ron Moody

as Ippolit Vorobyaninov

Frank Langella

as Ostap Bender

Dom DeLuise

as Father Fyodor

Andréas Voutsinas

as Nikolai Sestrin

Diana Coupland

as Diana Coupland

Mel Brooks

as Tikon

David Lander

as Engineer Bruns

Reviews

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For a Mel Brooks movie, far from the best. For a 60-70's comedy, I've definitely seen better. A poor man's Mad Mad Mad Mad World. "Was it interesting?" That was the best part. The story is complex, characters were developed with reasonable motivations. It's just the transition to a movie that did...

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