Yevgeni Petrov Movies

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the...

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs,...

The performance is based on the play of the same name by Ilya Ilf, and Yevgeny Petrov.

Film pamphlet based on satirical play of Evgeny Petrov "Island of Peace". Funky by atomic hysteria, American businessman Mr Wolf quits his business...

Self-confident and eccentric Columbus lands on the American shore in the 20th century.

The film is based on the feuilleton of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. A writer named Moldovantsev delivers a thrilling Soviet‐style...

The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury! New time requires a new image of the Turkish national Ostap Bender. He still selflessly loves money. As in...

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground...

Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards...

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds...

...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in...

Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim...

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

About the life and work of Soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov.

This film is an humorous view on the conflict of pedestrians with all growing car traffic.