The Golden Calf
14 hrs. 24 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ilya Ilf
Author
Evgeny Petrov
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Description
MediaBook studio presents a pearl of Russian literature, an audio book by the famous and incomparable duo of writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov—"The Twelve Chairs." The edition was adapted for film many times. The book is read by a popular performer and dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.
“— I would take it in parts. But I need it all at once.
…
— Why do you need so much money… and at once?
— Actually, I need more,” Ostap said. “Five hundred thousand is my minimum—five hundred thousand full-weight estimated rubles. I want to leave, comrade Shura, leave very far away, to Rio de Janeiro…”
Ostap threw a sheet onto the table, torn from a book.
“— This is an excerpt from the ‘Little Soviet Encyclopedia.’ Here it says about Rio de Janeiro: ‘1360 thousand residents…’ well… ‘a significant number of mulattoes… by a broad bay of the Atlantic Ocean…’ There! Here it is! ‘The main streets of the city, in terms of the wealth of shops and the magnificence of buildings, are not inferior to the first cities in the world.’ Can you imagine that, Shura? Not inferior! Mulattoes, the bay, coffee exports—so to speak, coffee dumping, and Charleston under the name ‘My girl has one little thing’ and… what else is there to say! You see what’s happening yourself. One and a half million people, and every last one in white pants. I want to get out of here. In the last year I’ve had serious disagreements with Soviet power. It wants to build socialism, and I don’t. I’m bored building socialism.”
“— I would take it in parts. But I need it all at once.
…
— Why do you need so much money… and at once?
— Actually, I need more,” Ostap said. “Five hundred thousand is my minimum—five hundred thousand full-weight estimated rubles. I want to leave, comrade Shura, leave very far away, to Rio de Janeiro…”
Ostap threw a sheet onto the table, torn from a book.
“— This is an excerpt from the ‘Little Soviet Encyclopedia.’ Here it says about Rio de Janeiro: ‘1360 thousand residents…’ well… ‘a significant number of mulattoes… by a broad bay of the Atlantic Ocean…’ There! Here it is! ‘The main streets of the city, in terms of the wealth of shops and the magnificence of buildings, are not inferior to the first cities in the world.’ Can you imagine that, Shura? Not inferior! Mulattoes, the bay, coffee exports—so to speak, coffee dumping, and Charleston under the name ‘My girl has one little thing’ and… what else is there to say! You see what’s happening yourself. One and a half million people, and every last one in white pants. I want to get out of here. In the last year I’ve had serious disagreements with Soviet power. It wants to build socialism, and I don’t. I’m bored building socialism.”
