Still, Bender is a charming and sympathetic character, which may speak to the success of the book. In its day, reportedly, “The Golden Calf” sold 120,000 copies in the Soviet Union.

With a restored text newly translated by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson, this enjoyable, meandering romp follows con man Ostap Bender and his circle of small-time criminals through a ...

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Director Igor Zaytsev is at the helm of an already completed trilogy that follows the fictional character Ostap Bender on the hunt for imperial gold. As the story unfolds a priceless scepter, a ...

And, it seems, into one more - a fatal foreign beauty. This is how the portrait of the legendary great schemer and favorite of women, Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky, begins to take shape.