The Twelve Chairs (1933)

Name: The Twelve Chairs
Director: Martin Frič
Released: 1933-09-22
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Vlasta Burian, Zula Pogorzelska, Adolf Dymsza, Józef Kondrat, Wiktor Biegański

Comedy

63 min

Plot Summary

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book