The Twelve Chairs [1970 film]

by Mel Brooks (Director), Mel Brooks (Screenwriter)

Other authors: Mel Brooks (Actor), Diana Coupland (Actor), Dom DeLuise (Actor), Sidney Glazier (Producer), Alan Heim (Editor) — 8 more, Michael Hertzberg (Producer), Ilya Ilf (Original book), Frank Langella (Actor), Ron Moody (Actor), John Morris (Composer), Djordje Nikolic (Cinematographer), Yevgeny Petrov (Original book), Andreas Voutsinas (Actor)

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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.

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A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune. (fonte: Imdb)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Brooks, Mel	Director	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Brooks, Mel	Screenwriter	main author	all editions	confirmed
Brooks, Mel	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Coupland, Diana	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
DeLuise, Dom	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Glazier, Sidney	Producer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Heim, Alan	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hertzberg, Michael	Producer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ilf, Ilya	Original book	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Langella, Frank	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Moody, Ron	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Morris, John	Composer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Nikolic, Djordje	Cinematographer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Petrov, Yevgeny	Original book	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Voutsinas, Andreas	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Mel Brooks Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men In Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part I / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety) by Mel Brooks

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The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf

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The Twelve Chairs [1970 film]

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The Twelve Chairs

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1970-10-28

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Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov

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The Twelve Chairs (1970 | IMDb)

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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.

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