Twelve Chairs (2004)
Zwölf Stühle
Overview
...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.
What is Twelve Chairs about?
...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city. Twelve Chairs is a Comedy movie, released on 2004-07-15, runtime 198 minutes.
Is Twelve Chairs worth watching?
TMDB users rate Twelve Chairs 6.7 out of 10 from 10 ratings. Reception is mixed-to-positive.
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Directed by
Ulrike Ottinger
Cast
- Georgiy Deliev as Ostap Bender
- Gennadiy Skarga as Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov
- Svetlana Dyagilyeva as Klavdiya Ivanovna Petukhova
- Boris Raev as Father Fyodor
- Iryna Tokarchuk as Elena Stanislavovna Bour
- Oksana Burlay-Piterova as Liza
- Irina Kovalskaya as Agafya Tikhonovna
- Natalya Buzko as Ellochka the Cannibal
- Alla Brodskaya as Katerina Aleksandrovna
- Anatoli Paduka as Vartholomey Korobeinikov
- Georgiy Derevyanskiy as Tikhon the janitor
- Mikhail Malitskiy as Persitsky
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