The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs

94 mins | Comedy | Dec. 17, 1962

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.

The Twelve Chairs

94 mins | Comedy | Dec. 17, 1962

The Twelve Chairs
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos
Original title Las doce sillas
Directors Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Writers Yevgeni Petrov, Ugo Ulive, Ilya Ilf, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast

Enrique Santisteban

as Hipólito Garrigó

René Sánchez

as El Cura

Pilín Vallejo

as Gertrudis

Idalberto Delgado

as Ernesto