Movielogr
12 Chairs (2004)
Directed by Maksim Papernik
Overview
Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il’f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov’s aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.
Length 164 minutes
Actors
Nikolay Fomenko | Ilya Oleynikov | Anzhelika Varum | Nina Usatova | Aleksey Vertinskiy | Yuriy Galtsev | Olga Volkova | Lyudmila Gurchenko | Olga Kogut | Aleksandr Semchev | Irina Tokarchuk | Dmitriy Shevchenko | Oleg Shkolnik | Neonila Beletskaya | Elena Vorobey | Olga Grishina | Dmitri Lalenkov | Serhii Ozirianyi | Oleksandr Bondarenko | Anatoliy Yashchenko | Nazar Zadneprovskiy | Lev Somov | Igor Slobodskoy | Mykola Babenko | Anna Levchenko | Valeriy Sheptekita