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The twelve chairs = Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev / Gaumont ; Brooksfilms Limited presents a Sidney Glazier production ; a film by Mel Brooks ; a UMC Pictures-Crossbow co-production ; screenplay by Mel Brooks ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks.
LIBRA DVD 003 095
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937. Dvenadt︠s︡atʹ stulʹev, author.
- Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942. Dvenadt︠s︡atʹ stulʹev, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937--Film adaptations.
- Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡.
- Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942--Film adaptations.
- Petrov, Evgeniĭ.
- Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.
- Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a, 1897-1937.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Manners and customs.
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1917-1970--Drama.
- Soviet Union.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Soviet Union--Drama.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Dvenadt͡satʹ stulʹev
- 12 chairs
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment ; [U.S.] : CBS Fox Video, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Dorde Nikolić; film editor, Alan Heim; music composed and conducted by John Morris; theme song, "Hope for the best" by Mel Brooks.
- Notes:
- "Based on the novel The twelve chairs by Ilf and Petrov as translated by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie and published by Methuen & co. ltd. under the title Diamonds to sit on."
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1970.
- Special feature: original theatrical trailer.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 249393295
- Publisher Number:
- 014381917420
- ID9174CUDVD Image Entertainment
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