Film Adaptations
The Twelve Chairs was made into a slapstick comedy in a 1970 film with the same name by Mel Brooks and Michael Hertzberg. Frank Langella played the part of Ostap Bender. Shortly after that, the novel was adapted to film twice in the USSR: first in 1971 by Leonid Gaidai with Archil Gomiashvili as Bender, and then in 1976 by Mark Zakharov, featuring Andrei Mironov as Bender. The Little Golden Calf was filmed by Mikhail Shveytser in 1968, with Sergey Yursky as Bender. In 1993, it was adapted as "Mechty Idiota" (Idiot's Dreams) by director Vasili Pichul, starring pop singer Sergei Krylov as Bender. In 2006, the Russian Channel One aired a new mini-series based on the novel starring Oleg Menshikov as Bender.
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