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Twelve Chairs [1970]

Starring: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Ron Moody, Frank Langella
Director: Mel Brooks
Format: PAL
Released: 26 Dec 2005
RRP: £12.99
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Not impressed - By: mythbuster, 19 Nov 2007
I like Mel Brooks' films a lot
I reallly liked Mel Brooks in this film (alll 10 minutes of him)
Dom DeLuise (Father Fyodor) was way too camp & overacting (even for him)
Frank Langella (Ostap Bender) was too pretty & not charming

The settings were reallly well done but most of the jokes of the book & the Russian version were lost.

excellent film - By: M. G. Caplin, 23 May 2007
having eventuallly secured this film on ebay in VHS video some years ago I am delighted to be able to get this on DVD...I have seen many times the original Russian versions (two of them) with Mironov; rather longer than this one of the satirical Ilf & Petrov novel that I laboured through when studying Russian.

Nevertheless this version is very authentic, (according to my Russian wife) possibly helped by the fact that it was filmed in what was then Yugoslavia...