The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs (1933)

September 22nd, 19331h 3min

Comedy
54%

Overview

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


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