The Twelve Chairs (film)

The Twelve Chairs is a 1928 satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Its screen adaptations include:

• Dvanáct křesel, 1933, directed by Martin Fric and Michal Waszynski (Czechoslovakia, Poland). The movie laid the base for many following foreign adaptations of the novel.
• Keep Your Seats Please, 1936 UK musical comedy film starring George Formby and Florence Desmond
• L'Eredita in Corsa, 1939, Italy.
• It's in the Bag!, 1945 US film starring Fred Allen and Jack Benny
• Tretton stolar, 1945, Sweden, directed by Börje Larsson.
• Sju svarta be-hå , 1954, Sweden, directed by Gösta Bernhard.
• Das Glück liegt auf der Straße , 1957, Germany, directed by Franz Antel.
• Treze Cadeiras , 1958, Brazil, directed by Franz Eichhorn.
• Las doce sillas, 1962 Cuban film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• Twelve chairs, 1966, USSR, teleplay directed by Aleksander Belinsky.
• Una su 13 (The Thirteen Chairs), 1969, Italy/France, directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, starring Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Wells and Vittorio De Sica.
• The Twelve Chairs (1970 film), US film directed by Mel Brooks
• The Twelve Chairs (1971 film), Russian film directed by Leonid Gaidai
• Rabe, Pilz und dreizehn Stuhle , 1972, GFR, series directed by Franz Marischka.
• The Twelve Chairs (1976 film), 1976 Russian miniseries directed by Mark Zakharov and starring Andrei Mironov
• Mein Opa und die 13 Stuhle , 1997, Germany, directed by Helmut Lohner.
• Zwölf Stühle, 2004 German film directed by Ulrike Ottinger
• The Twelve Chairs (2011, Iran), directed by Esmael Barari