Brooks personally is a big fan of The Twelve Chairs. After directing his first film, Brooks took a chance on directing… an adaptation of a Russian satire. The Twelve Chairs is an oft-adapted Russian novel from 1928, but in the Americas it is not a well-noted text. Perhaps that’s why The Twelve Chairs came and went in the blink of an eye.
The movie stars, among others, Dom DeLuise and Frank Langella. It has an impressive cast, and Brooks has a small role as well. He also changed the book’s narrative to make it less dark. Brooks wanted to let the audience leave on a high note.
We have not read the book, and can’t compare it as a text. But we have to give Brooks credit for trying to parody source material that was probably a mystery to large swaths of the audience.
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