12 Chairs

12 Chairs

161 mins | Comedy, Adventure | June 21, 1971

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

161 mins | Comedy, Adventure | June 21, 1971

12 Chairs
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Mosfilm
Original title 12 стульев
Directors Leonid Gaidai
Writers Leonid Gaidai, Yevgeni Petrov, Vladlen Bakhnov, Ilya Ilf

Cast

Archil Gomiashvili

as Остап Бендер

Sergei Filippov

as Киса Воробьянинов

Mikhail Pugovkin

as Отец Фёдор

Nina Grebeshkova

as Мусик / Царица Тамара

Yuriy Nikulin

as дворник Тихон

Natalya Krachkovskaya

as мадам Грицацуева

Natalya Varley

as Лиза

Igor Yasulovich

as инжинер Щукин

Georgiy Vitsin

as монтёр Мечников

Savely Kramarov

as председатель шахматного клуба

Klara Rumyanova

as попадья

Leonid Gaidai

as Коробейников

Ivan Zhevago

as редактор газеты «Станок»

Natalya Vorobyova

as Эллочка Щукина

Vladimir Kuznetsov

as шахматист (uncredited)