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Twelve Chairs(2004)
Status: Released
Date: 2004-07-15
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Time: 3h 18m
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.
Languages: German, Russian.
Countries:
Germany
ProductionCompanies:
Ulrike Oettinger Filmproduktion
Movie: Twelve Chairs
Top 10 Billed Cast
Георгий Делиев
Ostap Bender
Геннадий Скарга
Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov
Ирина Токарчук
Elena Stanislavovna Bour
Irina Kovalskaya
Agafya Tikhonovna
Наталья Бузько
Ellochka the Cannibal
Anatoli Paduka
Vartholomey Korobeinikov
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...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.
Release Date
2004-07-15
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6.9
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