• called himself Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bey, in The Little Golden Calf he called himself Bender-Zadunaysky, and he was called Ostap Ibragimovich...
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  • Ostap (Ukrainian: Остап) is a Ukrainian male given name. It derives from the Greek name Eustathius. People with this name include: Ostap Bender, a fictional...
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  • Bender: The Beginning, also known as Ostap Bender. The Beginning (Russian: Бендер: Начало) is a 2021 Russian action adventure comedy film directed by...
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  • the relic is sought by young adventurer Ostap Bender and his mentor, the seasoned con artist Ibrahim Bender. The scepter is hidden in the home of undertaker...
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    actor (People's Artist of Georgia, 1966) best known for his part of Ostap Bender in Leonid Gaidai's 1971 adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs...
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    Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible. Ostap Bender...
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  • can begin his quest, Ippolit Matveyevich meets a young swindler named Ostap Bender who coerces him into agreeing to help in the search in exchange for a...
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  • where Vorobyaninov's former mansion is located, a homeless con-artist, Ostap Bender, meets the dispossessed nobleman and manipulates his way into a partnership...
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    “smooth operator” and con-man Ostap Bender forces Kisa to become his partner, and they set out to find the chairs. Bender's street-smarts and charm are...
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  • Goodloe Bender, from the movie The Road to Wellville John Bender (character), from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club played by Judd Nelson Ostap Bender, a con...
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  • of pieces of public art. These over the years included the statue of Ostap Bender next to Arts Square, the memorial plaque to The Nose from Nikolai Gogol's...
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    actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968) Yursky was born in Leningrad, USSR, on 16 March...
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  • It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs. Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov...
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  • hero of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The main antihero of the novel, Ostap Bender, makes two hapless members of this society his sidekicks. The novel is...
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  • Bulgarians to Švejk for the Czechs, Tartarin of Tarascon for the French and Ostap Bender for the Russians. The collection of feuilletons consists of two parts...
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    Notes 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife George Prager The Twelve Chairs Ostap Bender 1971 The Deadly Trap Philippe 1979 Dracula Count Dracula 1980 Those Lips...
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    regretted. He played Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside Frank Langella (as Ostap Bender) in Mel Brooks' version of The Twelve Chairs (1970).In 1995 he appeared...
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  • 'bumblebee'. Ears of a dead donkey («От мертвого осла уши») – Quoting Ostap Bender from a popular Soviet novel The Little Golden Calf, that was, according...
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    Statue of Ostap Bender in Elista...
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  • an accomplished voice actor, most famous for providing the voice for Ostap Bender in The Twelve Chairs (1971). People's Artist of Russia (2000). The Village...
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    concert film Made in India. In 1992, Krylov appeared in the role of Ostap Bender in the movie Vasily Pichul's Idiot Dreams. In 1994, he carried out the...
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    the School of Mathematics and Mechanics, known as the main protege of Ostap Bender. Igor Artimovich, known for creating Festi. Yakov Rekhter, known for...
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    self. The Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov had their hero Ostap Bender tell the story of the Wandering Jew's death at the hands of Ukrainian...
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    male part in the movie The Tuner at the Stozhary 2005 film festival. Ostap Bender in Ulrike Ottinger's German feature film Zwölf Stühle (Twelve Chairs)...
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  • Look up bender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The surname Bender derives from German origin. In Germany, it is a form of Fassbinder or Fassbender...
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    connected by their main character, Ostap Bender, a con man in pursuit of elusive riches. Both books follow exploits of Bender and his associates looking for...
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    festivals and exhibitions, including an amateur chess championship of Ostap Bender. Until the 14th century, in the territory of Bernardine garden there...
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  • apartment in St. Petersburg Mikhail Zoshchenko's apartment Nabokov House Ostap Bender Arkhip Kuindzhi - a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum...
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    Célestin / Floridor The Twelve Chairs (12 стульев, 1976, TV Mini-Series) as Ostap Bender An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо, 1978, TV Movie) as Minister Administrator...
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    birth to Babel's Rabelaisian gangster or to the tricks and deceptions of Ostap Bender, the picaro created by Ilf and Petrov, left its mark on Bakhtin." He...
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