Underplayed Gems

Pub "13 Chairs" (1966)

Pub "13 Chairs" poster
Original title
Кабачок «13 стульев»
Directed by
Spartak Mishulin, Georgy Zelinsky, Mark Zakharov, Lidiya Ishimbayeva
Genre
comedy, family
Country
Soviet Union
Length
14 seasons, 133 episodes
Rated
6+
Rating
8.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The show takes place in a fake Polish pub where characters perform comedy sketches, tell jokes, and sing songs. It was based on humor from Eastern European magazines and ran for 133 episodes over 15 years.

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What happens

Pub "13 Chairs" (Russian: Кабачок «13 стульев») was a variety entertainment and comedy television program produced by Soviet Central Television. It aired from 16 January 1966 to 4 October 1980. The show was set in a studio designed to resemble a Polish pub. Its characters performed sketches, monologues, and musical numbers, often adapted from humor magazines from the Eastern Bloc countries such as Poland's Szpilki, Hungary's Ludas Matyi, Bulgaria's Starshel, East Germany's Eulenspiegel, and the Soviet Union's Krokodil. The main roles of the café’s patrons were primarily played by actors from the Moscow Satire Theatre. The program's chief director was Georgy Zelinsky. Over 15 years, a total of 133 episodes were produced. The show ended in 1980 following the political crisis in Poland. All characters refer to each other with Polish forms of polite address: "pan/pani", meaning "mister/mistress". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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