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Title:

The twelve chairs [videorecording] / Brooksfilms presents a Sidney Glazier Production ; U-M Productions, Inc. ; Crossbow Productions, Inc. ; written for the screen and directed by Mel Brooks.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher:

20th Century Fox Home Entertainmen :

Copyright Date:

c2009, c1970

Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1917-1970--Drama.
Aristocracy (Social class)--Soviet Union--Drama.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Brooks, Mel, 1926-
Moody, Ron.
Langella, Frank.
DeLuise, Dom.
Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a, 1897-1937.
Petrov, Yevgeni
U-M Productions.
Crossbow Productions.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.
Brooksfilms (Firm)
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Notes:

Title from disc. Based on a story written by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov in the 1920's. Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks.

Summary:

Set in Russia in 1927 this is the tale of a former aristocrat now reduced to the statues of a clerk by the Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune in jewels into a dining room chair, he sets off across Russia to find the chair -- pursued by an opportunist, a priest, and his former servant.

Series:

A Mel Brooks film.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)701330638

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)