Thread: Russian and American Influences in Arts

Originally Posted by fortheether

Mel Brooks did a film "The Twelve Chairs" based on the Ilf and Petrov book. Most Americans have no clue who Ilf and Petrov are.

Scott

interestingly, they also traveled across the USA in 1936 by car as correspondents with a Soviet newspaper; the result was the book named 'One-storeyed America'.