Twelve chairs /
Variety review title: 12 chairs
a U M C Pictures-Crossbow Company production ; a Sidney Glazier production ; directed by Mel Brooks ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; screenplay, Mel Brooks.
, United States.
- United States : U M C Pictures, 1970.
- 1 dvd sd., col. ; 35 mm.
- 94 min
Copyright: The Twelve Chairs. Appl. au: The Twelve Chairs Company, a joint venture of U-M Productions, Inc. & Crossbow Productions, Inc. DCR 1970; PUB 28Oct70 ; REG 15Jan80; PA55-648. Summary taken from Internet movie database. Based on the novel by Ilf & Petrov, as translated by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie & pub. by Methuen & Company, Ltd., under the title Diamonds to Sit On. Sources used: copyright data base; Internet movie database 3/18/04.
Music composed & conducted by John Morris ; director of photography, Doroe Nikolie. Music composed & conducted by John Morris ; director of photography, Doroe Nikolie.
Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Andreas Voutsinas, Dom DeLuise, David Lander, Diana Coupland.
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars 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.