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Title:

The Twelve chairs [videorecording] = Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev / CBS Fox Video ; Gaumont ; Brooksfilms Limited presents a Sidney Glazier production ; a film by Mel Brooks ; a UMC Pictures-Crossbow co-production ; screenplay by Mel Brooks ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks.

Format:

[videorecording] =

Publisher:

Image Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a,--1897-1937--Film and video adaptations.
Aristocracy (Social class)--Soviet Union--Drama.
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1917-1970.--Drama.

Other Authors:

Brooks, Mel, 1926-
Hertzberg, Michael.
Moody, Ron.
Langella, Frank.
DeLuise, Dom.
Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a, 1897-1937. Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev.
Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.
CBS Fox Video.
Gaumont (Firm).
Brooksfilms (Firm)
Image Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85:1). "Based on the novel The twelve chairs by Ilf and Petrov as translated by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie and published by Methuen & co. ltd. under the title Diamonds to sit on." Originally produced as motion picture in 1970. Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks.

Summary:

When a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it--with an opportunist, a priest and his former servant all in pursuit.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45477472

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)