The Thirteen Chairs

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The Thirteen Chairs (Original title: 12 + 1) is a comedy film released in 1969. It was based on The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It was directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, and starred Sharon Tate (her last film before her murder), Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Most of it was filmed in Italy.
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  • 1969

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  • 1 h 30 min

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Nicolas Gessner

Nicolas Gessner (b. 17 August 1931 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born film maker who mostly worked in France. His movies are often characterized by strange, quirky atmospheres and unusual cast mixing French and international actors. From the early eighties, Gessner mostly worked for...

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The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, Dvenadtsat stulev) is a classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1928. Its main character Ostap Bender reappears in the book's sequel The Little Golden Calf. In Soviet Russia in 1927, a former member of nobility,...
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