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1986 Force Video VHS cover
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| Directed by |
Nicolas Gessner Luciano Lucignani |
| Produced by |
Claude Giroux Edward J. Pope |
| Written by |
Antonio Altoviti Marc Behm Nicolas Gessner |
| Based on |
Dvenadtsat stulyev (The Twelve Chairs) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov |
| Starring |
Sharon Tate Vittorio Gassman Orson Welles Vittorio De Sica Tim Brooke-Taylor Terry-Thomas |
| Music by |
Stelvio Cipriani Carlo Rustichelli |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| Edited by | Giancarlo Cappelli |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | English |
The Thirteen Chairs (12 + 1 - original title and Italian release title) is a 1969 comedy film based on The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It was directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, and starred Sharon Tate (her last film before her death), Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Mario Beretti (Vittorio Gassman) is a young Italian-American Barber. He runs a Barber Shop located near a construction site that boasts few customers. His life reaches a turning point when he is notified of the death of his aunt living in England, who named him her sole heir.
Mario rushes to England and learns that his inheritance consists of not much; only thirteen antique chairs have a certain value. He sells them in order to cover his transportation costs, but soon learns from his aunt's Laura last message that inside one of the chairs is a fortune in jewels. He tries to buy back the chairs, but is unsuccessful in doing so. With the help of lovely American antiques dealer Pat (Sharon Tate), working in the antiques shop in front of Aunt Laura's house, where he sold the chairs, the two then set out on a bizarre quest to track down the chairs that takes them from London to Paris and to Rome. Along the way, they meet a bunch of equally bizarre characters, including the driver of a furniture moving van named Albert (Terry-Thomas); a prostitute named Judy (Mylène Demongeot); Maurice (Orson Welles), the leader of a traveling theater company that stages a poor version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; the Italian entrepreneur Carlo Di Seta (Vittorio De Sica); and his vivacious daughter Stefanella (Ottavia Piccolo).
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