Twelve Chairs

Story

Synopsis

...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.

Director

Ulrike Ottinger

Writers

Yevgeni Petrov, Ulrike Ottinger, Ilya Ilf

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

15 July 2004

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Georgiy Deliev

  Ostap Bender

• 

  Gennadiy Skarga

  Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov

• Svetlana Dyagilyeva

  Klavdiya Ivanovna Petukhova

• Boris Raev

  Father Fyodor

• 

  Iryna Tokarchuk

  Elena Stanislavovna Bour

• Oksana Burlay-Piterova

  Liza

• 

  Irina Kovalskaya

  Agafya Tikhonovna

• 

  Natalya Buzko

  Ellochka the Cannibal

• Alla Brodskaya

  Katerina Aleksandrovna

• 

  Anatoli Paduka

  Vartholomey Korobeinikov

• Georgiy Derevyanskiy

  Tikhon the janitor

• 

  Mikhail Malitskiy

  Persitsky