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The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov .
Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky [3] on a tenement kitchen table on June 28, 1926, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, [4] to Kate (née Brookman) and Max Kaminsky, [5] and grew up in Williamsburg. His father's family were German Jews from Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland); his mother was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant from Kyiv , in the Pale of Settlement of ...
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The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. [1] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov 's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs .
The Twelve Chairs: UMC (Universal Marion Corporation) Pictures: Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise, Andreas Voutsinas, Diana Coupland, Mel Brooks, David Lander, Vlada Petric, Elaine Garreau, Robert Bernal, Will Stampe 31 Dodes'ka-den : Toho / Yonki no Kai Productions
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
The film was released through rental only by Force Video in 1986 under the Thirteen Chairs title, and again a year later by Continental Video, under the original 12 + 1 title. On 12 March 2008, the film was released on DVD in Italy by 01 Distribution. This version is in Italian, lacks English subtitles, and does not include an English audio track.
Andreas Voutsinas (Greek: Ανδρέας Βουτσινάς; 22 August 1930 – 8 June 2010) was a Sudanese-Greek actor and theater director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1981).