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Twelve Chairs (2004)
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger
Overview
...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.
Length 198 minutes
Actors
Georgiy Deliev | Gennady Skarga | Svetlana Dyagilyeva | Boris Raev | Irina Tokarchuk | Oksana Burlay-Piterova | Irina Kovalskaya | Natalya Buzko | Alla Brodskaya | Anatoli Paduka | Georgiy Derevyanskiy | Mikhail Malitskiy | Pavel Kolomiychuk | Leonid Anisimov | Vsevolod Kabanov | Valeriy Bassel | Arthur Litvinov | Aleksandra Svenskaya | Peter Fitz