The Twelve Chairs

Sep 22, 1933

1h 3m

★ 5.4

Overview

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Rex-Film

Terrafilm

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Cast

holič Ferdinand Šuplátko

Vlasta Burian

Protektorka sierocińca

Zula Pogorzelska

Antykwariusz Kamil Klepka

Adolf Dymsza

Taksówkarz

Józef Kondrat

Profesor spirytysta

Wiktor Biegański

Wanda Jarszewska

Stanislaw Belski

Eugeniusz Koszutski

Aniela Miszczykówna

Stefan Szczuka

Helena Zarembina

Hanna Parysiewicz

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