"Kisa, we are strangers on this holiday of life." Before us is a sparkling comedy based on the wonderful book by Ilf and Petrov “12 chairs”, brilliantly shot by Leonid Gaidai, because he simply can not shoot otherwise. Other paintings based on this novel simply pale before this brilliant creation of the master of Soviet comedies for all time. The cast is delightful: Archil Gomiashvili in the role of Ostap-hot, charismatic and decisive unequivocally in the bull’s eye, Mr. Vorobyaninov in the role of Sergei Filippov is again hitting the top ten, and of course Mikhail Pugovkin is a perfect pop and as always played above all praise. I must say that the entire cast of Gaidai as always picked up excellently, here you and Krachkovskaya, and Etush, and Kramorov, and the king of the episodes Roninson, in general the golden guard of Gaidai in full strength and after all, he himself here played a rather important role of Mr. Korobeinikov.
I would also like to note that Gaidai managed to show the whole novel almost in full and of course in all its glory, he did not throw out anything important, everything perfectly fit in two episodes, and most importantly also brought his signature humor.
Ladies and gentlemen, watch “12 chairs” exactly Gaidaev’s version, because such a brilliant novel could only be filmed by such a brilliant director!
10 out of 10
Original