The Twelve Chairs (disambiguation)

The Twelve Chairs is a 1928 satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Its adaptations include:

Film

• Dvanáct křesel, 1933, directed by Martin Fric and Michal Waszynski (Czechoslovakia, Poland)
• Keep Your Seats Please, 1936 UK musical comedy film starring George Formby and Florence Desmond
• It's in the Bag!, 1945 US film starring Fred Allen and Jack Benny
• Sju svarta be-hå, 1954, Sweden, directed by Gösta Bernhard
• Das Glück liegt auf der Straße, 1957, Germany, directed by Franz Antel
• Las doce sillas, 1962 Cuban film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• The Thirteen Chairs, 1969, Italy/France, directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani
• The Twelve Chairs (1970 film), US film directed by Mel Brooks
• The Twelve Chairs (1971 film), Russian film directed by Leonid Gaidai
• The Twelve Chairs (1976 film), 1976 Russian miniseries directed by Mark Zakharov
• Mein Opa und die 13 Stuhle, 1997, Germany, directed by Helmut Lohner
• Zwölf Stühle, 2004 German film directed by Ulrike Ottinger
• The Twelve Seats, 2011, an Iranian film directed by Esmael Barari
• La sedia della felicità, 2013, the last film directed by Carlo Mazzacurati before his death.

Opera

• The Twelve Chairs (Shostakovich), an unfinished operetta by Dmitri Shostakovich