Screenplay: Ilya Ilf
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ilya Ilf. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Twelve Chairs
1971 · Movie · 161 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Archil Gomiashvili · Sergei Filippov · Mikhail Pugovkin · Natalya Krachkovskaya
7.1
39 votes
7.1
39 votes
The Twelve Chairs
1962 · Movie · 94 min. · Cuba
Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cast Enrique Santiesteban · Reynaldo Miravalles · René Sánchez · Idalberto Delgado
Plot When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides...
6.6
255 votes
6.6
255 votes
The Circus
1936 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Lyubov Orlova · Yevgeniya Melnikova · Vladimir Volodin · Sergei Stolyarov
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
The Twelve Chairs
1970 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Mel Brooks
Cast Ron Moody · Frank Langella · Dom DeLuise · Andréas Voutsinas
Plot A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family...
5.4
588 votes
5.4
588 votes
La sedia della felicità
2013 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Isabella Ragonese · Giuseppe Battiston · Antonio Albanese
5.2
39 votes
5.2
39 votes
12 + 1
1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Nicolas Gessner
Cast Sharon Tate · Vittorio Gassman · Orson Welles · Vittorio De Sica
Plot Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that...
5.1
59 votes
5.1
59 votes
Keep Your Seats, Please!
1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Monty Banks
Cast George Formby · Florence Desmond · Gus McNaughton · Alastair Sim
Plot A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
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Twelve Chairs (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Movie · 305 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Zakharov
Cast Andrey Mironov · Anatoli Papanov · Aleksandr Makarov · Nikolai Skorobogatov
Plot Two scoundrels try to find the twelve chairs, in one of which their aunts has sewn jewelry into.
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The Golden Calf
1968 · Movie · 174 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mikhail Shvejtser
Cast Sergei Yursky · Leonid Kuravlyov · Zinoviy Gerdt · Evgeni Evstigneev
Plot A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
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The Twelve Chairs
1933 · Movie · 66 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Martin Fric · Michal Waszynski
Cast Vlasta Burian · Adolf Dymsza · Zula Pogorzelska · Zofia Jaroszewska
Plot The barber by name of Ferdinand Suplátko learns that the late aunt has left him it all her money and house. He immediately goes to Warszawa for inheritance, but there...
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Twelve Chairs
2004 · Movie · 198 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Georgi Deliyev · Gennadiy Skarga · Svetlana Dyagilyeva · Boris Raev
Plot On her death bed, an old Russian aristocrat entrusts her son-in-law with a strictly guarded secret. Namely, that she had hidden all of her valuable jewelry in one of the...
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Treze Cadeiras
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil
Direction Franz Eichhorn
Cast Oscarito · Renata Fronzi · Zé Trindade · Grijo Sobrinho
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13 Stühle
1938 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany
Direction E.W. Emo
Cast Heinz Rühmann · Hans Moser · Inge List · Clementia Egies
Plot Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter...
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Bender: The Beginning
2021 · Movie · 96 min. · Russia
Direction Igor Zaytsev
Cast Sergey Bezrukov · Aram Vardevanyan · Nikita Kologrivyy · Taisiya Vilkova
Plot 1919 year. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender.
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