The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)
| The Twelve Chairs | |
|---|---|
| Based on | The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov |
| Written by | Mark Zakharov Evgeny Schwartz |
| Directed by | Mark Zakharov |
| Starring | Andrei Mironov Georgy Vitsin Anatoli Papanov Aleksandr Abdulov Tatyana Pelttser Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina |
| Composer | Gennady Gladkov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language | Russian |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Osherov Georgi Rerberg Dmitri Surensky |
| Editors | T. Aksyonova Nina Osipova |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1976 |
| External videos | |
|---|---|
| Cruel Tango ("Жестокое танго") Ostap Bender in search of another chair. |
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев) is a 1976 four-episode musical television film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov.
It is the second full length adaptation of the novel in the Soviet Union (the first was directed by Leonid Gaidai) and is the sixth one in the world.