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The Twelve Chairs (1971 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Twelve Chairs' is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[http://cinema.mosfilm.ru/films/film/Dvenadtcat-stulev/dvenadtsat-stulev-1 cinema.mosfilm.ru] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel 'The Twelve Chairs'.
Cast
* Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender (voiced by Yuri Sarantsev; singing voice by Valeri Zolotukhin; in some scenes speaks with his own voice)
* Sergey Filippov as Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
* Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor
* Natalya Krachkovskaya as Madame Gritsatsuyeva
* Igor Yasulovich as Ernest Shchukin, engineer
* Natalya Vorobyova as Ellochka Shchukina, Ernest Shchukin's wife
* Klara Rumyanova as Katerina Aleksandrovna, Father Fyodor's wife
* Natalya Varley as Liza (voiced by Nadezhda Rumyantseva)
* Georgy Vitsin as fitter Mechnikov
* Savely Kramarov as one-eyed chess player
*Radner Muratov as first chess player
* Viktor Pavlov as Kolya, Liza's husband
* Gotlib Roninson as chairman Kislyarsky
* Roman Filippov as poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
* Grigory Shpigel as Aleksandr Yakovlevich
* Yuri Nikulin as janitor Tikhon
* Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
* Vladimir Etush as Andrei Bruns
*Nina Grebeshkova as Musik, Bruns' wife
*Alexander Khvylya as Vakkhanyuk
*Nina Agapova as soloist of theater "Kolumb"
*Rina Zelyonaya as editor of youth problem magazine "Groom and Bride"
*Irina Murzaeva as guide of furniture craftsmanship museum
*Erast Garin as theater critic
* Leonid Gaidai as Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)
* Rostislav Plyatt as Narrator (uncredited)
*Stanislav Sadalsky as fireman in theater "Kolumb" (uncredited)
References
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