Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The twelve chairs [videorecording] / a UMC Pictures-Crossbow co-production ; Brooksfilms presents a Sidney Glazier production ; a Mel Brooks film ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; written for the screen and directed by Mel Brooks.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2006.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical stereo mono

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD region 1

Summary:

When a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it--with an opportunist, a priest and his former servant all in pursuit.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: G.

Subjects:

Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937 -- Film adaptations.

Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942 -- Film adaptations.

Jewelry -- Soviet Union -- Drama.

Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union -- Drama.

Joyas -- Unión Soviética -- Teatro.

Treasure troves -- Drama.

Lost articles -- Drama.

Upper class families -- Drama.

Clase alta -- Unión Soviética -- Teatro.