Ostap Bender is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. The novels

The Golden Calf is a 1968 Soviet comedy film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on the eponymous novel by Ilf and Petrov. The title of the film and the novel alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bib