The Twelve Chairs (1970)

Directors

Mel Brooks

Cast

Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas, Diana Coupland, David L. Lander

The story

In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals before dying that she had sewn the family's jewels into the seat cushion of one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set to prevent the Bolsheviks from getting them. After hearing the dying woman's confession, the Russian Orthodox priest Father Fyodor, who had arrived to administer the last rites, decides to abandon the Church and attempt to steal the treasure for himself.

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