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    Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or Russian:...
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    and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and...
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  • Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram (Russian: Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров, romanized: Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Viktor...
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    the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. As Ilf and Petrov, they wrote The Twelve Chairs, released in 1928, and its sequel...
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    Soviet authors, Ilf and Petrov. The book, divided into eleven chapters and in the uninhibited humorous style typical of Ilf and Petrov, paints a multi-faceted...
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  • The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov. Upon its release, The Twelve Chairs was received positively by critics, and is one of Brooks's favorite movies...
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    The Little Golden Calf (category Ilf and Petrov)
    Zolotoy telyonok) is a satirical picaresque novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in...
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  • Ostap Bender (category Ilf and Petrov)
    In the comments to the Complete Works of Ilf and Petrov by M. Odessky and D. Feldman, this phrase is explained as a hint to his supposed...
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  • The Thirteen Chairs (category Ilf and Petrov)
    Tim Brooke-Taylor and Lionel Jeffries. It is based on the 1928 satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, which has been adapted...
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    The Twelve Chairs (category Ilf and Petrov)
    stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain...
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    films Three Fat Men (Tri tolstyaka) (1966), Ilf and Petrov Went by Tram (Ekhali v tramvaye Ilf i Petrov) (1972). There were also other, less noteworthy...
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  • of absolute societal rot. It’s the funniest thing in Russian since Ilf and Petrov". The story is a first-person narrative by an alcoholic intellectual...
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  • The Twelve Chairs (1976 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    name by Ilf and Petrov. It is the second full length adaptation of the novel in the Soviet Union (the first was directed by Leonid Gaidai) and is the sixth...
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  • Circus (1936 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    written by Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev and performed by Moscow music hall, Under the Circus Dome (Под куполом цирка), which was seen and liked by...
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    and pimp. The Twelve Chairs (1928) and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf (1931), by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov (together known as Ilf and Petrov) became...
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  • advisor to Israel, China and India through his work in industrial planning. Featured as a central character in the book by Ilf and Petrov One-storied America...
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    Yury Olesha (category Soviet dramatists and playwrights)
    far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky...
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    film by Leonid Gaidai based on the famous novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, a 1973 comedy by Leonid Gaidai...
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    Kevin Smith The Little Golden Calf, a satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov Cash Cow (A Rock Opera In Three Small Acts), a song on the Steve Taylor...
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  • As I'm Suffering From Kadhal (2017) As If I Am Not There (2010) As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram (1972) As In Heaven (1992) As Is (1986 TV) As It Is in Heaven...
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  • episodes)—an adaptation of the satirical novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov, where two partners in crime search for chairs from a former twelve-chair...
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  • Josep Pla (1897–1981, Spain [Catalonia]) Ilf and Petrov: Ilya Ilf (1897–1937, Soviet Union) and Yevgeni Petrov (1903–1942, Soviet Union) – The Twelve Chairs...
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    of a higher truth and of his own self. The Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov had their hero Ostap Bender tell the story of the Wandering Jew's...
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  • The Golden Calf (1968 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on the eponymous novel by Ilf and Petrov. Sergei Yursky as Ostap Bender Leonid Kuravlyov as Shura Balaganov Zinovy...
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  • satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1946 novel by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The Twelve...
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  • St. Jorgen's Day (category Soviet black-and-white films)
    Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky. Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional...
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  • of Asya Klyachina (1966) A Nest of Gentry (1969) Uncle Vanya (1970) Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram (1972) The Mirror (1975) Melodies of a White Night (1976)...
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  • The Twelve Chairs (1971 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs. Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving...
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  • It's in the Bag! (1945 film) (category Ilf and Petrov)
    (1928) of Ilf and Petrov, later filmed by Mel Brooks as The Twelve Chairs (1970). The team of screenwriters included Jay Dratler, Alma Reville, and Morrie...
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    satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, and describes the town in which people are born, get their hair cut, and then are sent to the cemetery....
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