Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 14, 2021 23:20:04 GMT
Золотой телёнок , The Golden Calf (1968) Soviet Union Dir. Mikhail Shveytser. A wonderfully entertaining film was adapted from the satirical novel of the same name by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. The stories main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous well known novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. Here the charming con-man Ostap Bender who dreams of Rio de Janeiro schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire...
Opening this film is another film, straight to the cinema screen complete with piano accompaniment, Bender sleeps in a small cinema as the silent comedy Процесс о трех миллионах , The Three Million Trial (1926) is playing. It is a delightful cinematic scene, a small audience of mixed ages watch spellbound as the adult action unfolds...
Opening this film is another film, straight to the cinema screen complete with piano accompaniment, Bender sleeps in a small cinema as the silent comedy Процесс о трех миллионах , The Three Million Trial (1926) is playing. It is a delightful cinematic scene, a small audience of mixed ages watch spellbound as the adult action unfolds...