Yevgeni Petrov

Yevgeni Petrov
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 10 (Writer)
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The Twelve Chairs
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia... (imdb)
Las Doce Sillas
A Cuban version of the famous Soviet novel of the same name. An impoverished businessman, learning of some jewels hidden in one of twelve chairs, schemes to get them, aided by a con man and in competition with a greedy priest.
Mister Uolk
Mister Uolk (1949) - Short Film
Based on the drawings of renowned political caricaturist Boris Yefimov. A wealthy American retires with his family to the Island of Peace. All is well until oil is discovered and greed trumps Mr.... (youtube)
12 stulyev
12 stulyev (1977) - TV Mini-Series
Two scoundrels try to find the twelve chairs, in one of which their aunts has sewn jewelry into (imdb)
12 + 1
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him. (imdb)
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The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in. (imdb)
Twelve Chairs
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds. (imdb)
Dvanáct kresel
The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. The novel has inspired twenty adaptations in Russia and abroad. The first cinema adaptation of the novel was the joint Polish-Czech film Dvanáct k?esel (1933). The original plot was considerably altered yet many following adaptations were primarily based on this film rather than on the novel itself.
The Golden Calf
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire. (imdb)
Zwölf Stühle
A classic Russian story filmed at least half a dozen times including by Mel Brooks is updated for a portrait of society and politics in the now independent country of Ukraine in 2004. (imdb)