The Twelve Chairs (1970)

Name: The Twelve Chairs
Director: Mel Brooks
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1970-10-28
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

GP | 94 min | Comedy

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.

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Cast & Crew

Top Billed Cast

Ron Moody

Vorobyaninov
Frank Langella

Ostap Bender
Dom DeLuise

Father Fyodor
Andréas Voutsinas

Nikolai Sestrin

(as Andreas Voutsinas)
Diana Coupland

Madam Bruns
David Lander

Engineer Bruns
Vlada Petric

Sevitsky
Elaine Garreau

Claudia Ivanovna
Robert Bernal

Curator
Will Stampe

Night Watchman
Bridget Brice

Young Woman
Nicholas Smith

Actor in Play
Rada Djuricin

Actress in Play
Branka Veselinovic

Natasha
Mladen 'Mladja' Veselinovic

Peasant

(as Mladja Veselinovic)

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1 win & 1 nomination.

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7 November 1999 | CHARLIE-89

The Twelve Chairs

THE TWELVE CHAIRS is a different kind of Mel Brooks comedy. Its story, from a Russian novel by Ilf and Petrov, will seem very tasteful and human to those who are acquainted with Brooks' usual raunchiness. This movie is a nice change. Ron Moody and Frank Langella star, with Dom DeLuise and a special appearance by Mel Brooks as Tikon.

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Trivia

Marked Frank Langella's film debut. He had been recommended for the role by Anne Bancroft (wife of director/star Mel Brooks). Bancroft had appeared with Langella in William Gibson's play, "A Cry Of Players", which closed on Broadway after a brief run (November 1968-February 1969).

Quotes

Ippolit Vorobyaninov: You're not worth spitting on!
Father Fyodor: Oh yeah? Well, you are!

Goofs

The railway workers' club (last chair location) opening ceremony takes place in apparent autumn. However, when Ostap and Ippolit break in at night, there is a lot of snow around.

Crazy Credits

In the opening credits the title of the movie is showed in Russian first (even with a typographic error 'Dvenadzat' stchlyev'), then it changes into the english title. The same happened at the end of the credits with the words "The end" (Konez), first cames the Russian word, than the english translation.