Zula Pogorzelska

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.